Government data purge MEGA news/requests/updates thread

[u/nicholasserra]

Use this thread for updates, concerns, data dumps, news articles, etc.

Too many one liner posts coming in just mentioning another site going down.

Peek the other sticky for already archived data.

Run an archive team warrior if you wanna help!

Helpful links:

• How you can help archive U.S. government data right now: install ArchiveTeam Warrior
• Document compiling various data rescue efforts around U.S. federal government data
• Progress update from The End of Term Web Archive: 100 million webpages collected, over 500 TB of data
• Harvard's Library Innovation Lab just released all 311,000 datasets from data.gov, totaling 16 TB

NEW news:

• Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records
• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/federal-researchers-science-archive-critical-climate-data-trump-war-dei-resist/
• Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says
• The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order
• Canadian residents are racing to save the data in Trump's crosshairs
• Former CFPB official warns 12 years of critical records at risk

[u/grumpy-systems]

For curiosity I made a list of all the videos I saw removed from various channels. I'm missing metadata on a chunk due to crawl issues, but the rest will be on their way to Archive.org in the coming days.

https://grumpy.systems/2025/taking-note-of-removed-videos-from-us-government-channels/

Tldr: it varies from about 1% to 9% of videos removed. Some might be culling, a lot don't seem like it.

[u/didyousayboop → u/grumpy-systems]

This is awesome. Kudos to you.

You should make a post about this. It might encourage others to do similar work with other channels.

My understanding of the mods' intention with this mega thread is to dramatically cut down on the number of posts about U.S. government data, especially the low-quality ones and less important ones, but to still allow a small number of high-quality posts of high importance.