A Trump executive order aimed at gender identity led to temporary outages of key data on the U.S. Census Bureau's website, raising concerns about political censorship. After the Office of Personnel Management issued guidelines post-order, various URLs related to LGBTQ+ statistics ceased to be accessible, prompting fears about public trust in the bureau's integrity and autonomy from political influences. Data on sexual orientation and gender identity, which is important for civil rights enforcement, remained largely invisible for days, signaling a serious issue for data transparency within federal agencies.
The U.S. Census Bureau's website faced shutdowns after Trump’s executive order on gender identity, raising public trust concerns over political interference and data access.
The Census Bureau's homepage went offline on Jan. 31, with significant webpages on LGBTQ+ data disappearing, leading to fears about data censorship and agency independence.
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