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Datasets from Data.gov Have Disappeared

The answer is more complicated than you might think.

"While some of the deletions are surely malicious information scrubbing, some are likely routine artifacts of an administration change, and they are working to determine which is which," said the investigation. That said determining whether deletions were done on purpose or as a collateral effect of changing administrations is an arduous process that requires manual research of each archive. And in his current presidency, he instructed federal agencies in an executive order to delete information about gender identity and DEI initiatives — part of Trump's promise to end "wokeness."

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