Source: The Bulwark
by Jill Lawrence
“I am such a geek that I remember when Barack Obama made a splash by liberating reams of government data so Americans could use it to do things like compare colleges and start businesses. It was 2013 and talk of a catchy ‘abundance agenda’ was not even a glimmer in anyone’s eye. Instead, Obama signed an executive order called ‘Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information.’ Way to go viral, guys. … This was a relatively obscure moment. I probably wouldn’t remember it at all, except for the contrast with Donald Trump’s first term, when government data became unreliable and sometimes disappeared completely. Now, in his second presidency, it’s a major obsession for me and many others.” (05/07/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-information-warfare-privacy-federal-data