[BowBun]

From the article:

> Changes in presidential administrations have led to datasets being deleted in the past, either on purpose or by accident. When Biden took office, 1,000 datasets were deleted according to the Wayback Machine, via 404 Media's reporting.

[derbOac]

I think the question is the nature of the losses in the two cases, the transparency circumstances about them, and who exactly is making the decisions about specific datasets.

Time will tell but loss of public datasets is probably not usually good in general.

[doener]

Yes, the context in which this happens could provide clues as to the nature of these losses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898165

[animal_spirits]

This is not a direct quote, the actual quote from the article is

> But archivists who have been working on analyzing the deletions and archiving the data it held say that while some of the deletions are surely malicious information scrubbing, some are likely routine artifacts of an administration change, and they are working to determine which is which. For example, in the days after Joe Biden was inaugurated, data.gov showed about 1,000 datasets being deleted as compared to a day before his inauguration, according to the Wayback Machine.

[akudha]

Why are the datasets deleted though? Biden or Trump, Democrats or Republicans - What do they gain?