Thousands of U.S. government web pages are being altered or deleted after a slew of executive orders from the President targeting what his administration calls ‘gender ideology extremism’ and environmental policies
The race is on to try to stop vital information from being rewritten or scrubbed from U.S. government websites, with researchers warning that the loss of key data could create risks for the environment and marginalized communities.
“They’re systematically going through all federal documents … and taking out the words they find offensive,” Georges Benjamin, head of the American Public Health Association, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.Officials at the CDC and other federal health agencies have also purged statistics on HIV among transgender people and data on health disparities among young gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Academics and online preservation groups, which maintain a record of the U.S. government as it changes over time for historical and research purposes, have intensified their efforts to back up information. While 7,200 static pages, PDFs, spreadsheets, and more were backed up on ACASignups, a website managed by Gaba that tracks Affordable Care Act data and health issues, the process did not save the main public health databases, which have to be downloaded separately.
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