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Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites | Websites, databases, and associated YouTube channels quickly being archived by volunteers
Websites, databases, and associated YouTube channels quickly being archived by volunteers
U.S. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that has resulted in many government agencies taking down webpages and sites to comply. Because of this, data hoarders across the internet are racing to preserve them all before they’re taken offline, with MuckRock reporting that the End of Term Archive, which includes the Internet Archive, Stanford University, Common Crawl Foundation, University of North Texas, and Webrecorder, having already saved more than 500 terabytes from .gov domains. It's reported that more than 8,000 government pages have been taken down, including the Department of Justice database detailing the criminal charges and convictions of January 6 rioters, LGBTQ+ rights and HIV-related information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool released by the Council on Environmental Quality, among others.
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