CNBC: YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others. “These campaigns primarily shared content in Chinese and English that promoted the People’s Republic of China, supported President Xi Jinping and commented on U.S. foreign affairs. Over 2,000 removed channels were linked to Russia. The content was in multiple languages that supported Russia and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/cnbc-youtube-wipes-out-thousands-of-propaganda-channels-linked-to-china-russia-others/

Court News Ohio: Clerk of Court Cannot Block Online Access to Older Eviction Records. “The Hamilton County Clerk of Courts cannot defy a judicial order by eliminating remote access to online court records of older, residential eviction cases, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/19/court-news-ohio-clerk-of-court-cannot-block-online-access-to-older-eviction-records/

Data Rescue Project: Why We’re Starting a New Federal Data Forum. “[Population Reference Bureau] recently launched the Federal Data Forum—a centralized online community designed to unite public data stakeholders in defense of America’s statistical infrastructure. The initiative builds on PRB’s previous work as data intermediaries, including our American Community Survey Online Community, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/data-rescue-project-why-were-starting-a-new-federal-data-forum/

SFGATE: MLB curiously removes A’s ‘reverse boycott’ game broadcasts from digital archive. “It’s been two years since Oakland A’s fans joined forces to make one of the loudest statements possible with a ‘reverse boycott,’ showing out in force to a Tuesday night game to protest against A’s owner John Fisher and his plan to move the team. Now, on the two-year anniversary of the forceful […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/sfgate-mlb-curiously-removes-as-reverse-boycott-game-broadcasts-from-digital-archive/

The Journalist’s Resource: When health data disappears: 8 tips for finding what’s hidden from public view . “As the U.S. government continues to remove data and make radical changes to its websites, reporters are encountering health data that’s incomplete, altered or missing entirely. At the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference in Los Angeles on May 30, a panel of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/when-health-data-disappears-8-tips-for-finding-whats-hidden-from-public-view-the-journalists-resource/

PC World: Clean up your X (Twitter) account with this handy free tool. “Want to clear out your old posts on X (formerly Twitter) without deleting your entire account? That’s where Cyd comes in. It doesn’t use X’s API, so instead of relying on third-party permissions, it works by simulating how you’d manually delete content yourself.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/pc-world-clean-up-your-x-twitter-account-with-this-handy-free-tool/

MuckRock: TSA complaint data disappeared. Here’s where you can still find it.. “Not long ago, I did a routine check-in on a project I hadn’t thought about in a while: a Data Liberation Project repo that scrapes and archives Transportation Security Administration (TSA) traveler complaints. It was supposed to be a quick check-in—just restart the scraper GitHub had paused for inactivity. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/20/muckrock-tsa-complaint-data-disappeared-heres-where-you-can-still-find-it/

PressGazette, and once again I promise I did not intentionally put these articles together: Facebook deactivated journalist’s account for posting story about sex offender. “Facebook deactivated the personal account of a local news journalist who posted a link to a story about a sex offender on the page of her employer. A Facebook page for Iliffe-owned Kent radio station KMFM was also […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/pressgazette-facebook-deactivated-journalists-account-for-posting-story-about-sex-offender/

New York Times: These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies. This link goes to a gift article. “One internal document indicates that Pornhub as of May 2020 had 706,000 videos available on the site that had been flagged by users for depicting rape or assaults on children or for other problems. That was partly because, the documents suggest, Pornhub did not necessarily […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/new-york-times-these-internal-documents-show-why-we-shouldnt-trust-porn-companies/

International Business Times: Web Archivists Scrambling To Save US Public Data From Deletion. “As President Donald Trump’s administration purges public records since storming back to power, experts and volunteers are preserving thousands of web pages and government sites devoted to climate change, health or LGBTQ rights and other issues.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/08/international-business-times-web-archivists-scrambling-to-save-us-public-data-from-deletion/

TorrentFreak: Link-Busters Reports its Three Billionth ‘Pirate’ URL to Google Search. “In the escalating war against online book piracy, Dutch takedown outfit Link-Busters continues to shatter records. In less than a year, the company reported over two billion pirate URLs to Google search, reaching a milestone of three billion reported URLs overall. While the volume is impressive, it also […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/04/torrentfreak-link-busters-reports-its-three-billionth-pirate-url-to-google-search/

The Eagle (American University): American University librarians take up the mantle with government data rescue project. “A team of four librarians at American University is joining a nationwide effort to preserve removed or redacted data in a Government Information Data Rescue guide. Editors Jessica Breen, Gwendolyn Reece, Olivia Ivey and Sarah Gilchrist each bring their own expertise to the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/the-eagle-american-university-librarians-take-up-the-mantle-with-government-data-rescue-project/

From the Data Rescue Project: the Data Rescue Tracker. “The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help reduce duplication of rescue efforts. The Data Rescue Tracker aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is backing up which dataset from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-data-rescue-tracker/

PressGazette: Publishers delete and amend stories based on dubious experts. “Dozens of stories have been deleted and amended by leading publishers after a Press Gazette investigation into fake and dubious experts being widely quoted in the UK and US media. The story exposed a troubling trend of fake profiles commenting in response to online journalists’ requests, targeting lifestyle […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/pressgazette-publishers-delete-and-amend-stories-based-on-dubious-experts/

Axios: NOAA research websites slated to go dark get a reprieve.”NOAA has averted the early cancellation of an Amazon Web Services contract that would have caused a slew of agency websites to go dark beginning at midnight, the agency said Friday. Why it matters: The outages mainly would have affected NOAA’s research division, and would have made numerous websites and data sets inaccessible to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/axios-noaa-research-websites-slated-to-go-dark-get-a-reprieve/

Stars and Stripes: DOD webpages celebrating legendary minority troops to be restored after being scrubbed from sites. “Webpages detailing the history of legendary minority service members will be restored to the Defense Department’s online platforms after the content was pulled following an agency-wide examination of material for diversity, equity and inclusion, the Pentagon said […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/stars-and-stripes-dod-webpages-celebrating-legendary-minority-troops-to-be-restored-after-being-scrubbed-from-sites/

NiemanLab: The New York Times picks up the shuttered FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracking database. “When ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight early this month, the site’s publicly available polling databases — like a presidential approval rating tracker — shut down, too. … Luckily, the data has been saved: The New York Times is picking up where FiveThirtyEight left off…”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/niemanlab-the-new-york-times-picks-up-the-shuttered-fivethirtyeights-poll-tracking-database/

Task & Purpose: Medal of Honor recipient depicted in movie ‘Glory’ erased from Pentagon website. “A Black soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Civil War battle retold as the finale of the 1989 movie ‘Glory’ has been scrubbed from a Pentagon website, with an article on the soldier labeled as ‘DEI’ in the now-broken web link.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/task-purpose-medal-of-honor-recipient-depicted-in-movie-glory-erased-from-pentagon-website/

Pentagon Orders Removal of Media Content Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

https://defensemirror.com/news/38953/Pentagon_Orders_Removal_of_Media_Content_Promoting_Diversity__Equity__and_Inclusion

Pentagon Orders Removal of Media Content Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

https://defensemirror.com/news/38953/Pentagon_Orders_Removal_of_Media_Content_Promoting_Diversity__Equity__and_Inclusion