Re:Public is reporting stories about the lands that belong to all of us

A New Voice for America’s Public Lands – “America’s 660 million acres of public lands are one of our nation’s greatest treasures, vital for recreation, wildlife, clean water, and cultural heritage. But at the very moment when these lands face unprecedented pressure from deregulation, underfunding, and privatization, coverage of their future is vanishing from the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The ONE Data Agent Explore health financing data

The ONE Data Agent™ uses AI to search tens of millions of data points on health financing. We use trusted global sources, including the WHO’s Global Health Expenditure Database and the OECD Creditor Reporting System. The data is curated and cleaned by ONE Data’s team of experts, enabling you to quickly and easily find relevant …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine, Search Engines

USAID’s education data has been preserved

What Works Hub: “When USAID terminated its education programmes in early 2025, it also removed public access to a rich collection of data on global learning outcomes – putting at risk two decades of work and hundreds of datasets. These datasets, critical to researchers, implementers and most importantly, decision-makers in each country, were nearly lost. …

Subjects: E-Records, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Hannah Ritchie, Tuna Acisu, and Edouard Mathieu (2025) – “Does the news reflect what we die from?” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from‘ [Online Resource]. What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on? For this work, we relied on Media Cloud, an open-access …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Archive for Voice and Silence

Archive for Voice and Silence, a website that uses AI to track and map protests and activist movements around the world. The goal is to provide a clean, visual representation of these events for researchersA non-profit project mapping protests and civic actions globally. We aggregate publicly reported events to help researchers, journalists and communities understand …

Subjects: AI, Legal Research, Search Engines

FlightAware’s Misery Map

“FlightAware is a digital aviation company and operates the world’s largest flight tracking and data platform. With global connectivity to every segment of aviation, FlightAware provides over 10,000 aircraft operators and service providers as well as over 13,000,000 passengers with global flight tracking solutions, predictive technology, analytics, and decision-making tools. FlightAware receives data from air …

Subjects: Internet, Search Engines, Transportation

LLRX September 2025 Issue – Articles and Columns

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health, Part 3 – This is a follow up to two recent articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici on the Trump administration’s relentless attacks against science, medicine and public health, government sponsored data collection and reporting, climate science, free speech, and the censorship of federally funded …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Environmental Law, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

The Trumpian Fantasy of WhiteHouse.gov

The Atlantic [no paywall]: “Last week, Donald Trump’s White House anticipated the impending government shutdown like an album release, placing a massive countdown clock at the top of WhiteHouse.gov. “Democrat Shutdown Is Imminent,” read the online home of the People’s House, on a black background. Now that the shutdown has happened, a clock is counting …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

404 Media: “A data hoarder on Reddit used AI to create a searchable database of more than 8,100 files about Jeffrey Epstein released by the House Oversight Committee, making it one of the easiest ways to search through a very messy batch of files. The project, called Epstein Archive and released on Github, allows people …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

AI Models Need to be Disinfected — Or George Orwell’s “1984” Will Come True

NewsGuard By Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard Co-CEO: “Recent forecasts say the AI companies could soon spend trillions of dollars to expand their AI offerings. In addition to paying for expensive chips and giant server farms, the AI companies should make their AI output trustworthy. They have allowed their models to be infected with malign falsehoods so …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Mozilla Firefox feature gets special mention in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025

Neowin: “TIME Magazine has had this tradition since the year 2000, where it spotlights impactful new creations. The list began with about 35 inventions but has expanded over the years to keep up with innovation. In this year’s list of notable creations, Mozilla Firefox’s Shake to Summarize got a special mention, something Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, general …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines