Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning
Erasing wokeness, one dataset and line of code at a time.
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Show Notes
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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