Preserving the US State Department’s Data

"In February 2026, the US State Department announced it would delete every post on its official X accounts made before Trump returned to office on January 20, 2025. The posts would be “archived internally.” But to see them, the public would have to file a FOIA request.

We didn’t think that was good enough - so we backed them up.

The State Department X Archive preserves approximately 30,000 tweets from @StateDept, along with video and phone media, from January 2008 to January 2025 - 17 years of day-to-day US diplomacy."