I swear, this is peak bureaucratic incompetence or intentional obfuscation, take your pick. Turning "don't" into "don t" and then blacking out the split like that is either a hilariously broken redaction script or a lazy attempt to hide stuff without leaving a clean paper trail. Either way it makes the whole dataset less trustworthy.
Congress should subpoena the redaction tool, logs, and original files and hold people accountable if this was done to frustrate oversight. In the meantime everyone archive the originals, compare versions, and make noise. If they think a sloppy auto-censor will stop us from connecting dots, they clearly underestimate how stubborn this community is.
I swear, this is peak bureaucratic incompetence or intentional obfuscation, take your pick. Turning "don't" into "don t" and then blacking out the split like that is either a hilariously broken redaction script or a lazy attempt to hide stuff without leaving a clean paper trail. Either way it makes the whole dataset less trustworthy.
Congress should subpoena the redaction tool, logs, and original files and hold people accountable if this was done to frustrate oversight. In the meantime everyone archive the originals, compare versions, and make noise. If they think a sloppy auto-censor will stop us from connecting dots, they clearly underestimate how stubborn this community is.