Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...
#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
ERICA to the Rescue!
ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...
www.datarescueproject.org
April 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Save the date! Goverment Information Day Spring - a hybrid event over two days: Thursday, April 24th (in-person and hybrid at SFU Downtown Campus) and Friday April 25th (in-person only at the Internet Archive Canada headquarters in Vancouver, BC. Stay tuned! #GovernmentInformation #Preservation
February 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Save the date! Goverment Information Day Spring - a hybrid event over two days: Thursday, April 24th (in-person and hybrid at SFU Downtown Campus) and Friday April 25th (in-person only at the Internet Archive Canada headquarters in Vancouver, BC. Stay tuned! #GovernmentInformation #Preservation
"Pausing" the dissemination of #GovernmentInformation like this has obvious implications for Public Health.
This is deliberate. And dangerous.
This is deliberate. And dangerous.
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.
No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.
And no indication how long the pause will last.
With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.
And no indication how long the pause will last.
With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"Pausing" the dissemination of #GovernmentInformation like this has obvious implications for Public Health.
This is deliberate. And dangerous.
This is deliberate. And dangerous.
For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved & protected, safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity.
The Trump administration is scrubbing thousands of government websites of history, legal records & data it finds disagreeable.
The Trump administration is scrubbing thousands of government websites of history, legal records & data it finds disagreeable.
May 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"For as long as artificial intelligence has been used by government agencies, it’s faced significant scrutiny due to its potentially harmful ripple effects, especially for vulnerable and minority populations, and data privacy concerns." #AI #GovernmentInformation #InformationPrivacy
The biases inherent in gen AI will now be seen as a feature, not a bug.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
OpenAI on Tuesday announced the launch of ChatGPT for government agencies in the U.S.
www.cnbc.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"For as long as artificial intelligence has been used by government agencies, it’s faced significant scrutiny due to its potentially harmful ripple effects, especially for vulnerable and minority populations, and data privacy concerns." #AI #GovernmentInformation #InformationPrivacy
U.S. Government agencies have been ordered to enact sweeping takedowns of information— but technologists, librarians, and open access organizations have mobilized a preservation effort.
DDoSed by Policy: Website Takedowns and Keeping Information Alive
Who needs a DDoS (Denial of Service) attack when you have a new president? As of February 2nd, thousands of web pages and datasets have been removed from the U.S. government agencies following a serie...
www.eff.org
February 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"’They are looking for information where it's easy to get, rather than where it's correct,’ said Waldo Jaquith, a former Obama appointee who oversaw IT contracting at the Treasury Department.”
This guy knows what’s up.
This guy knows what’s up.
Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health
Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This post highlights colleagues' efforts to preserve Government datasets. And a patron assisted by those efforts. As said in my header photo; Libraries work because we do.
#GovernmentInformation 📚
#GovernmentInformation 📚
#librarians #librariestransform #datapreservation #openscience #researchintegrity #gwu #thankalibrarian | Caitlin G. | 16 comments
A few months ago, I shared a frustration that may sound familiar to many researchers in this day and age: a federal dataset I had used in an analysis had disappeared. When a peer-reviewer asked for ad...
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September 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This post highlights colleagues' efforts to preserve Government datasets. And a patron assisted by those efforts. As said in my header photo; Libraries work because we do.
#GovernmentInformation 📚
#GovernmentInformation 📚
Deliberate government misinformation.
#GovernmentInformation
#GovernmentInformation
White House replaces government COVID website with one promoting the Wuhan Lab Leak conspiracy
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
White House replaces government COVID website with one promoting the Wuhan Lab Leak conspiracy
On Friday, April 18, the Trump White House replaced the COVID.gov site with a web page promoting the lie that the COVID pandemic was the product of nefarious activities conducted by China with the ass...
www.wsws.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Deliberate government misinformation.
#GovernmentInformation
#GovernmentInformation
Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
January 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Possible alternate sources: LC, Internet Archive
#GovernmentInformation
#GovernmentInformation
The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.
January 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Possible alternate sources: LC, Internet Archive
#GovernmentInformation
#GovernmentInformation
I know well that government websites will change to reflect the priorities of each administration. At the same time, the propaganda has been dialed up to 11, and it's appalling.
#EGovernment #GovernmentInformation
#EGovernment #GovernmentInformation
The NOAA account on here is now putting out propaganda. That one hurt.
April 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I know well that government websites will change to reflect the priorities of each administration. At the same time, the propaganda has been dialed up to 11, and it's appalling.
#EGovernment #GovernmentInformation
#EGovernment #GovernmentInformation
Fortunately, it's now archived. At the same time, removing the information does not make it any less true. Usually, it evokes the Streisand effect ... #GovernmentInformation
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Fortunately, it's now archived. At the same time, removing the information does not make it any less true. Usually, it evokes the Streisand effect ... #GovernmentInformation
#MarkoElez, an employee at #ElonMusk’s #DOGE, inadvertently published a private #APIkey for #xAI on #GitHub, granting access to over 50 #LLMs. This incident raises concerns about Elez’s handling of sensitive #governmentinformation, especially given his history of #mishandlingdata and controversial…
July 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
#MarkoElez, an employee at #ElonMusk’s #DOGE, inadvertently published a private #APIkey for #xAI on #GitHub, granting access to over 50 #LLMs. This incident raises concerns about Elez’s handling of sensitive #governmentinformation, especially given his history of #mishandlingdata and controversial…
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June 22, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Purely historical erasure. #GovernmentInformation
donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
www.washingtonpost.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Purely historical erasure. #GovernmentInformation
# GovernmentInformation
SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?
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www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
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www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.
www.kqed.org
July 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
# GovernmentInformation
New information regarding Archives II.
#GovernmentInformation
#GovernmentInformation
I heard from someone who works there that management needs better messaging skills - I mean, that:
the research rooms are still open to researchers, no change in that policy
buses and cars will no longer be able to drive up right to the building, that is the change in policy
the research rooms are still open to researchers, no change in that policy
buses and cars will no longer be able to drive up right to the building, that is the change in policy
June 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
New information regarding Archives II.
#GovernmentInformation
#GovernmentInformation
Important thread for research. Also pertinent because of the changing access to #GovernmentInformation.
I've told this story before, but seems like it's relevant again. After the 2016 election, I heard that data and webpages were disappearing off government sites. A short while later, I had 2 students who were rigging into topics that needed demographic data on public school students. 1/
Justice Dept's four-year old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations
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January 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Important thread for research. Also pertinent because of the changing access to #GovernmentInformation.
January 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
January 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM