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Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning

2025/2/9
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
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This chapter explores the alarming disappearance of government data sets, focusing on the impact on healthcare and rare disease research. The narrative highlights the crucial role of federal data in connecting patients and facilitating faster diagnoses.
  • Data from the CDC and NIH are offline or modified.
  • One in 14 individuals has a rare disease; data is crucial for diagnosis and treatment.
  • Restricting data sharing hinders medical progress and reverts advancements.

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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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