How NARA’s Preserving More Than 20 Terabytes of Trump Social Media Data - Nextgov
peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-01-26
Summary:
"America’s federal records-keeper is in the midst of a hefty, ongoing effort to preserve many terabytes of digital and social media records from former President Donald Trump, who was suspended from using multiple online platforms in his final days in office.
To do so, the National Archives and Records Administration is leveraging a technology-based solution called ArchiveSocial.
“NARA has begun the task of working with ArchiveSocial to export the records from their platform and ingest them into NARA’s Electronic Records Archive for preservation,” a statement National Archives Public and Media Communications shared with Nextgov this week said. “We will also prepare exports from ArchiveSocial for public access, and they will be posted on trumplibrary.gov as they are made available.”..."