Earlier this year, the US State Department announced it would delete every post on its official X accounts made before Trump returned to office in 2025.

Deleting years of previous government posts that should be easily accessible to the public is dangerous and antidemocratic, to say the least.

At Lockdown Systems, we thought this information should remain accessible to the public. So we backed them up.

Read more about this: https://lockdown.systems/preserving-the-us-state-departments-data/

Consult the whole archive on our State Dept X Archive website: https://lockdown-systems.github.io/statedept-archive/

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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

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@lockdownsystems I am pretty sure it also goes against some records act, and deleting those tweets counts as following illegal orders.