{
  "id": 7772246,
  "title": "Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/trump-asked-americans-to-help-him-whitewash-national-parks-they",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T11:00:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/16/trump-national-parks-executive-order-history"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Department of Interior (DOI) has placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed 'negative about either past or living Americans'. This initiative was part of Executive Order 14253, \"Restoring truth and sanity to American history\", which aimed to censor American history at US national parks and federal lands. However, the QR codes became a mode of resistance rather than a tool for whitewashing history. Over the past year and a half, this campaign led to dozens of sign removals across the US, most of them related to slavery, Indigenous history, and the climate crisis. Instead of promoting a sanitized version of American history, the QR codes sparked a backlash, with visitors using them to highlight the removals and the censorship efforts of the Trump administration.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}