"I'd missed comments about data being actively deleted rather than just being made unavailable, and I know there's major concerns about ceasing to collect and distribute weather data."Sadly, it's only too true that the administration has been trying to destroy masses of data. Right at the beginning of the process when they'd barely got started, the NYT reported that "More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon .... as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes and scientific research, among many other topics. Doctors, researchers and other professionals often rely on such government data and advisories. Some government agencies appear to have removed entire sections of their websites, while others are missing only a handful of pages."(https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/upshot/trump-government-websites-missing-pages.html)
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