New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is kicking off a \u201cnew era\u201d for City Hall \u2013 a task that by day two has already included revoking nine executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams and deleting Adams\u2019 old tweets.<\/p>\n
The Mayor\u2019s Office of Rodent Mitigation is gone, as is the Mayor\u2019s Office of Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology. Soon, all of Adams\u2019 old posts on X trumpeting his war on rats and the power of cryptocurrency will be gone from the social media platform too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mamdani administration is in the process of deleting Adams\u2019 old tweets \u2013\u00a0an action that drew ire<\/a> from the National Jewish Advocacy Center Thursday, as some of the first tweets deleted referenced fighting antisemitism.<\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s senior spokesperson Dora Pekec said the new administration has started deleting posts on X published by the Adams administration, but said they are being archived. \u201cThis ongoing process is administrative in nature and is not based on the content of the posts,\u201d Pekec said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n Council Member Gale Brewer, a passionate advocate for archiving records, said she didn\u2019t have a problem with deleting posts, as long as the old posts are archived somewhere. \u201cIf it\u2019s archived, it\u2019s accessible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Accessing the archived tweets<\/a>, however, is not the most user-friendly process. The city Department of Records and Information Services\u2019 Social Media Archive<\/a> returns hundreds of thousands of results for tweets both from and to the previous mayor, and requires more digging than simply scrolling back on the \u201cNYC Mayor\u201d account now managed by the Mamdani administration.<\/p>\n Concerns about digital records-keeping and transparency arose four years ago, when then-City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams\u2019 office deactivated<\/a> her predecessor Corey Johnson\u2019s separate Twitter account. Legislation sponsored by Brewer passed last year<\/a> ensuring that government social media accounts were archived on a publicly accessible site.<\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s second executive order, issued on Thursday soon after his inauguration, revoked all executive orders issued on or before September 26, 2024 \u2013\u00a0the day Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges \u2013\u00a0as part of a stated desire to ensure a \u201cfresh start.\u201d But for a period between Thursday night and Friday morning, it was difficult to tell which executive orders were affected, as the city\u2019s website tracking executive orders and other items \u2013\u00a0like press releases and statements \u2013 had been wiped clean of anything prior to Jan. 1, 2026. As of Friday afternoon, however, all of those old items were back up.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pekec said that those deletions did not come from a direct order from the press office, and that the old executive orders and other posts were added back after the Office of Technology and Innovation received requests on Friday to restore them to the city website. A spokesperson for OTI declined to provide further comment.<\/p>\n (The Adams executive orders that were revoked include EOs 45<\/a>, 46<\/a>, 49<\/a>, 50<\/a>, 52<\/a>, 56<\/a>, 57<\/a>, 60<\/a> and 63<\/a>. Those orders always remained searchable on Google if you knew what to search.)<\/p>\n Beyond the deleted X posts, local Jewish organizations and the Israeli government also objected<\/a> to Mamdani\u2019s revocations of an executive order banning city engagement in the boycott, divest and sanctions movement against Israel, and one adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\u2019s definition of antisemitism, which includes in its scope some criticism of Israel. <\/strong>Mamdani said Friday that some other Jewish organizations have \u201cimmense concerns\u201d about that definition of antisemitism, but said that his administration will be \u201crelentless\u201d in combating hate, including antisemitism, and would increase funding for the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes. One Adams-era action that Mamdani maintained was establishing an Office to Combat Antisemitism.<\/p>\n Though Mamdani has been off to a busy<\/a> start<\/a>, the new administration is still finding its sea legs on some of the logistical aspects of the job two days in. A Friday press release\u00a0from City Hall listed a campaign email address as a point of contact \u2013 an action which would seem to, technically, run afoul of conflict of interest rules barring the use of government resources to promote campaigns. Pekec called it an \u201cunforced error.\u201d And an X post from an official city account misspelled his name<\/a> as \u201cMamadani.\u201d That post too, was deleted, but was reposted with a correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is kicking off a \u201cnew era\u201d for City Hall \u2013 a task…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12648,13239,5289,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,345,27761,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-489567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-city-hall","11":"tag-eric-adams","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-social-media","19":"tag-twitter","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115831552651719272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}