Trump’s digital purge


Dong Eun Kim , a senior exhibition conservator, checking the light levels of the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives in Washington, DC. — Jared Soares/The New York Times

SOON after the new administration arrived, things began to vanish from the White House website.

Informational pages about the US Constitution and past presidents – content that had been up since George W. Bush’s presidency – all went dark.

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