#contentremoval — Public Fediverse posts

Moscow Times: Apple Removes Yandex’s Payment Service App. “Major Russian digital wallet and payment service Yandex Pay said Wednesday that its application had been removed from Apple’s App Store. The removal means iPhone users in Russia can no longer download or update Yandex Pay. The app allows users to store cards, make contactless payments and split purchases across Yandex’s suite of […]

PR Newswire: Former federal data officials answer the question: How many federal datasets have been terminated since January 2025? (PRESS RELEASE). “Today, dataindex.us, the nation’s leading resource for monitoring changes to federal data, published the Federal Data Terminations Tracker—the most policy-relevant, verified source of federal datasets terminated since January 2025. Having evolved […]

The Guardian: Meet the army of amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks. “Hundreds of volunteers, many of whom are anonymous, have submitted photos of national signage to the digital archive. As of 3 August, the site has compiled 17,236 photos, including at least one in nearly every national park and historic site in the country.”

Kyiv Independent: Wildberries hides military goods in search results after Ukrainian strikes hammer warehouses. “Russia’s largest online retailer, Wildberries, has stopped displaying military-related goods in response to searches that refer directly to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to reports published on July 26. The development comes after seven of the company’s warehouses were […]

UA News: YouTube Has Blocked Another 25 Channels Spreading Russian Propaganda — CPD. “YouTube has blocked or completely removed another 25 channels from its platform that are linked to Russian propaganda and the information war against Ukraine. Among them are channels run by sanctioned individuals, Kremlin-affiliated media outlets, and organizations that spread disinformation and justified […]

Mashable: The federal government is erasing bike lanes — from its websites. “Transportation employees, including those working for the Federal Highway Administration, have been ordered to find and even remove mentions of bikes, bike lanes, and bike safety from online pages, an investigation by NPR found. In the last week, dozens of safety pages have been taken down or edited to remove public […]

Stephen Follows: What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all. “Its hand-researched data is the highest quality, tracking box office grosses, budgets, home video and streaming across more than 78,000 films and 236,000 people. It gets north of eight million visitors a year, and is treated as THE definitive authority by journalists, academics, filmmakers, prediction markets, and even […]

Current Affairs: Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?. “From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it.”

Gizmodo: Developers Claim OpenAI’s New AI Model is Going Rogue and Deleting Files. “But one of the upshots of building highly agentic AI systems is that they’re prone to all kinds of unexpected behaviors—including now and then deleting copious amounts of files. Multiple people have reported this recently happening to them while using GPT-5.6, the newest model from OpenAI.”

Ukrayinska Pravda: Google Play removes Russian apps Max, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. “The removal of the apps appears to be linked to the recent EU sanctions imposed on VKontakte and its subsidiary, Communications Platform, the investment company that developed Max. The EU says the messaging app was created under the control of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and includes surveillance […]

Flickr Blog: Keeping Flickr Safe: Our Inactive Account Policy. “At Flickr, we’re committed to maintaining a platform that’s secure, trustworthy, and built for photographers who are passionate about sharing their work. As part of that ongoing commitment, we’re introducing a policy to remove inactive accounts that have never been used.”

Pocketables: We received two DMCA takedown requests via Google from an entity “Jellybean” for 2012 reporting on Android Jelly Bean. “The two articles in question were written on October 8, 2012, and December 10, 2012, and assuming that ‘jamelizsmth’ on tik-tok is this person, which everything seems to indicate, she was 9 years old when those were published. I wasn’t the writer as a note, […]

San Francisco Standard: Disappeared by Google: Search giant wiped user reviews on ICE detention centers. “The company has disabled reviews for almost all of the country’s immigration detention centers over the past year, according to a study by a Tulane University professor that was published in June(opens in new tab). It’s unclear when the company began disabling reviews for the more than […]

Search Engine Journal: Fake DMCA Complaints Keep Erasing Real Pages From Google – What To Watch For. “Copyright complaints can remove live pages from Google search before the dispute is resolved. Here’s how the takedown process works and how to spot it.”

Mediaite: Trump admin deletes cooling advice after right goes scorched on Mamdani for same info. “The U.S. Department of Energy apparently deleted its longstanding guidance that homeowners keep their air conditioning set to 78 degrees, after critics slammed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) for giving the exact same advice during the current heat wave.”

The Hill: Appeals court reverses order requiring removed signs to be restored at National Park sites. “A federal appeals court reversed a lower court’s order requiring the National Park Service (NPS) to restore signs and exhibits that were removed by the Trump administration.”

Search Engine Land: Google is investigating reports of reviews going missing and pausing reviews on local listings. “After several days of complaints from businesses, Google has confirmed it is investigating reports of missing reviews from Google Local listings and has paused the ability of Google Business Profile listings to receive reviews.”

Scientific American: History depends on records that weren’t built to last. “Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a trace.”

The Register: Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out . “Claude Code users are reporting that the app is silently deleting conversation transcripts – yours may even already be gone if you don’t know to change a default setting that the platform never bothers to tell users about.”

Sony erases digital content from libraries; reminded we don't own what we buy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/sony-erases-digital-content-from-libraries-were-reminded-we-dont-own-what-we-buy/

#HackerNews #Sony #Digital #Rights #DigitalOwnership #ContentRemoval #ConsumerAwareness

Climate.us: Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information. “Climate.us today launched the full version of its new independent, nonprofit climate information website, creating a public-backed home for trusted climate science at a time when access to federal climate resources has become increasingly vulnerable to disruption.”

The Guardian: Consumer protection agency deletes thousands of pages as Trump administration seeks to dismantle it. “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau deleted at least 2,200 webpages from its website last month, a move advocates say is part of the Trump administration’s latest effort to dismantle the federal consumer finance watchdog.”

Lawfare: The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It. “Last week, the Justice Department began systematically removing material from its web sites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol…. At Lawfare, we have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that […]

The Register: Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion. “You know your Google API key has leaked so you rush to disable it before bad actors can start running up charges on your account. Bad news: According to security researchers at Aikido, people can use the API keys for up to 23 minutes after a user deletes them, creating a window of opportunity that, when […]

NBC News: Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters. “The Justice Department has removed press releases detailing the charges against hundreds of individuals who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot from its website, the department confirmed Friday.”

University of Michigan: Legal pressure key to removing nonconsensual nudity online. “The new study, co-authored by School of Information researchers, finds that X (formerly Twitter) removed AI-generated nude images far more quickly when reports were filed under copyright law than under the platform’s own nonconsensual nudity policy.”

New York Times: Thousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the Internet . This link goes to a gift article. “An archived website of FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism publication known for its polling analysis and election models, is now redirecting readers to ABC News, its owner and former host. As a result, many thousands of articles stretching back to FiveThirtyEight’s […]

Mashable: California lawmakers explore ways to preserve access to online games. “California lawmakers are deliberating a proposed bill, known as the ‘Protect Our Games Act,’ that would require publishers to continue offering access to online games even after developers stop supporting them, according to Ars Technica.”

KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”

Reuters: Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website. “The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website ‌about its agreement with Google, xAI and ‌Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models for security vulnerabilities, ​according to a Reuters review of the agency’s site.”