Commentary: The Trump Administration’s Attempt to Wipe Public Data Is Censorship. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous.

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Commentary: The Trump Administration’s Attempt to Wipe Public Data Is Censorship. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous.

On the first night of February, I tossed and turned until dawn worrying about my job. I had just seen a Reddit post warning members of a geography subreddit that the federal government was shutting down data portals in 90 minutes. My job as a data journalist at the Daily Yonder relies almost exclusively on federal datasets, from my reporting on the coronavirus pandemic that used CDC data, to economic updates on employment from the Bureau of Labo…