Trump 2.0 Has Deleted or Altered Nearly 400 US Datasets, Endangering Public Health, Education and More

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows.

Image: Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to dataindex.us. Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty Images

 

The Guardian reports: A database of federal law enforcement officer misconduct records. A survey measuring physical, sexual and emotional violence against children and youth. Real-time pollution readings collected by air quality monitors from US embassies around the world.

These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration’s priorities.

Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from dataindex.us, a group of data policy experts, researchers and developers that formed last year to monitor changes to government data.

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