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What Next TBD | Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning

Feb 9, 2025
29:50

Using Github, you can watch as government websites are brought into compliance with Donald Trump’s executive orders. Out goes the word “equity;” in comes “fair.” And health and science data, once publicly available, disappears.


Guest: Jason Koebler, cofounder of 404 Media.


Jeremy Prokop, data science advisor in the Midwest


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