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State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office (text.npr.org)
submitted 3 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The State Department is removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before President Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025.

The posts will be internally archived but will no longer be on public view, the State Department confirmed to NPR. Staff members were told that anyone wanting to see older posts will have to file a Freedom of Information Act request, according to a State Department employee who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by the Trump administration. That would differ from how the U.S. government typically handles archiving the public online footprint of previous administrations.

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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 32 points 2 hours ago

Memory hole: A system for altering or erasing inconvenient historical documents, photographs, and articles.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

Are they really not aware of all of the public archiving that occurs constantly?

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So, all these posts are guns get mirrored by tonight, right?

Freedom of information request my ass...

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Everything prior to 2018 is archived in the Library of Congress. It's where all of my beer reviews are.

Linus uploads to FTP and lets the world mirror. I just let the LOC archive my stuff.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm sure those are being scrubbed.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

They try to memory hole something in the LOC and every librarian in the country will show them how dangerous the deep state can be. Those "no weapons" signs at libraries will start disappearing into the periodical file.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 24 minutes ago

There are "no weapons" signs at libraries?

[–] AquaTofana@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago

Oh good, we're another step closer to 1984 becoming reality.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And the next administration will delete the rest. (hopefully)

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't. We need documented history

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 3 points 18 minutes ago

Relying on X for documenting history is problematic in itself