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More than 2,000 datasets of U.S. open data hosted on data.gov have been removed -- since Trump took POTUS (www.404media.co)
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[–] evenwicht 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Knee-jerk fix: we make a FOIA request for the data that was removed.

But the shame of it is that FOIA reqs are not gratis, which means we have to pay again for the data. Elon’s DOGE office would just see it as a success that they are getting extra compensation for the data.