The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It - Software Unplugged

Shortly after the new administration arrived, things began to disappear on the White House website. It wasn’t just party policy platforms that usually disappeared during a presidential transition. Information pages on the constitution and previous presidents, in various ways since President George W. Bush was in office, all disappeared. Thousands of other government websites, including content on vaccines, hate crimes, low-income children, opioi…

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It - Software Unplugged

Soon after the new administration arrived, things began to go missing from the White House website. They weren’t just the partisan policy platforms that typically disappear during a presidential transition. Informational pages about the Constitution and past presidents, up in various forms since President George W. Bush was in office, all vanished. Thousands of other government web pages had also been taken down or modified, including content ab…