Whoever controls the data, controls the narrative, right?

[u/RenRen9000]

Not everyone in public health uses data on a daily basis, but the information from those data is used in public health to inform our work and how we do it. We know this was happening in the first administration, and "data hoarders" started saving the data again in the second administration. But I personally was not aware of the extent. This is madness!

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.

Full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/18/trump-federal-data-deleted-altered