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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>MuckRock: TSA complaint data disappeared. Here’s where you can still find it.. “Not long ago, I did a routine check-in on a project I hadn’t thought about in a while: a Data Liberation Project repo that scrapes and archives Transportation Security Administration (TSA) traveler complaints. It was supposed to be a quick check-in—just restart the scraper GitHub had paused for inactivity. […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/20/muckrock-tsa-complaint-data-disappeared-heres-where-you-can-still-find-it/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/20/muckrock-tsa-complaint-data-disappeared-heres-where-you-can-still-find-it/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>PressGazette, and once again I promise I did not intentionally put these articles together: Facebook deactivated journalist’s account for posting story about sex offender. “Facebook deactivated the personal account of a local news journalist who posted a link to a story about a sex offender on the page of her employer. A Facebook page for Iliffe-owned Kent radio station KMFM was also […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/pressgazette-facebook-deactivated-journalists-account-for-posting-story-about-sex-offender/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/pressgazette-facebook-deactivated-journalists-account-for-posting-story-about-sex-offender/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>International Business Times: Web Archivists Scrambling To Save US Public Data From Deletion. “As President Donald Trump’s administration purges public records since storming back to power, experts and volunteers are preserving thousands of web pages and government sites devoted to climate change, health or LGBTQ rights and other issues.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/08/international-business-times-web-archivists-scrambling-to-save-us-public-data-from-deletion/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/08/international-business-times-web-archivists-scrambling-to-save-us-public-data-from-deletion/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Eagle (American University): American University librarians take up the mantle with government data rescue project. “A team of four librarians at American University is joining a nationwide effort to preserve removed or redacted data in a Government Information Data Rescue guide. Editors Jessica Breen, Gwendolyn Reece, Olivia Ivey and Sarah Gilchrist each bring their own expertise to the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/the-eagle-american-university-librarians-take-up-the-mantle-with-government-data-rescue-project/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/the-eagle-american-university-librarians-take-up-the-mantle-with-government-data-rescue-project/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>From the Data Rescue Project: the Data Rescue Tracker. “The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help reduce duplication of rescue efforts. The Data Rescue Tracker aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is backing up which dataset from […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-data-rescue-tracker/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-data-rescue-tracker/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>PressGazette: Publishers delete and amend stories based on dubious experts. “Dozens of stories have been deleted and amended by leading publishers after a Press Gazette investigation into fake and dubious experts being widely quoted in the UK and US media. The story exposed a troubling trend of fake profiles commenting in response to online journalists’ requests, targeting lifestyle […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/pressgazette-publishers-delete-and-amend-stories-based-on-dubious-experts/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/pressgazette-publishers-delete-and-amend-stories-based-on-dubious-experts/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Axios: NOAA research websites slated to go dark get a reprieve.”NOAA has averted the early cancellation of an Amazon Web Services contract that would have caused a slew of agency websites to go dark beginning at midnight, the agency said Friday. Why it matters: The outages mainly would have affected NOAA’s research division, and would have made numerous websites and data sets inaccessible to […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/axios-noaa-research-websites-slated-to-go-dark-get-a-reprieve/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/axios-noaa-research-websites-slated-to-go-dark-get-a-reprieve/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Stars and Stripes: DOD webpages celebrating legendary minority troops to be restored after being scrubbed from sites. “Webpages detailing the history of legendary minority service members will be restored to the Defense Department’s online platforms after the content was pulled following an agency-wide examination of material for diversity, equity and inclusion, the Pentagon said […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/stars-and-stripes-dod-webpages-celebrating-legendary-minority-troops-to-be-restored-after-being-scrubbed-from-sites/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/stars-and-stripes-dod-webpages-celebrating-legendary-minority-troops-to-be-restored-after-being-scrubbed-from-sites/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>NiemanLab: The New York Times picks up the shuttered FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracking database. “When ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight early this month, the site’s publicly available polling databases — like a presidential approval rating tracker — shut down, too. … Luckily, the data has been saved: The New York Times is picking up where FiveThirtyEight left off…”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/niemanlab-the-new-york-times-picks-up-the-shuttered-fivethirtyeights-poll-tracking-database/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/niemanlab-the-new-york-times-picks-up-the-shuttered-fivethirtyeights-poll-tracking-database/</a></p>
Frej 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇵🇸<p>All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive <a href="https://eotarchive.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">eotarchive.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Term_Web_Archive" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_T</span><span class="invisible">erm_Web_Archive</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/en</span><span class="invisible">d-of-term-web-archive/</span></a></p><p>National Archives blog post: <a href="https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2024/06/24/announcing-the-2024-end-of-term-web-archive-initiative" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">records-express.blogs.archives</span><span class="invisible">.gov/2024/06/24/announcing-the-2024-end-of-term-web-archive-initiative</span></a></p><p>Library of Congress blog post: <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/07/nominations-sought-for-the-2024-2025-u-s-federal-government-domain-end-of-term-web-archive/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">7/nominations-sought-for-the-2024-2025-u-s-federal-government-domain-end-of-term-web-archive/</span></a></p><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/end-of-term/eot2024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/end-of-term/eot2024</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Internet Archive collection page: <a href="https://archive.org/details/EndofTermWebCrawls" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/EndofTermW</span><span class="invisible">ebCrawls</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bigdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigdata</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/contentremoval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contentremoval</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/datasets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datasets</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/digitalimpermanence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalimpermanence</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/governmentdatasets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>governmentdatasets</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/trumpadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trumpadministration</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>404 Media: Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov. “As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out, on January 21, there were 307,854 datasets on data.gov. As of Thursday, there are 305,564 datasets. Many of the deletions happened immediately after Trump was inaugurated, according to snapshots of the website saved […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/02/404-media-archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/02/404-media-archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/</a></p>