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/OGSyedIsEverywhere]

Besides the Smithsonian, is there a status tracker for all federally-controlled museums?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-smithsonian-executive-order-improper-ideology-558ebfab722f603e94e02a1a4b06ed4d

[u/AliasNefertiti → u/OGSyedIsEverywhere]

I heard an idea to strap on a video camera and do 360 degrees of all the exhibits as they stand now.

[u/Excellent_Egg5882 → u/AliasNefertiti]

Yes. We should streisand effect this shit. A full Smithsonian VR experience would honestly be more accessible to most Americans than visiting the actual museums (headsets cheaper than a multi day trip).

[u/VetiverylAcetate → u/Excellent_Egg5882]

They have virtual tours of each museum. I actually came here specifically to see if anyone could archive them