NEW YORK/TOKYO -- Huge swaths of U.S. government online information have vanished, with President Donald Trump's administration purging at least 1,000 pages from the websites of some 90 federal agencies, according to a Nikkei survey.
Explore the full visual investigation here.
Such pages include those related to climate changes and the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Many of the deletions were based on executive orders Trump signed after his inauguration. As Trump passes 100 days back in office, officials in his administration are deleting images and data that do not align with Trump's worldview.
In this visual investigation, Nikkei focused on examining over 10,000 entries from the End of Term Web Archive (EOT) project. We checked whether URLs that had been accessible in January could be accessed in March. Institutions such as Stanford University Libraries are involved in the EOT project. It is assumed that many of the registrants are anonymous librarians.
