Mamdani plans to delete ALL Adams’ tweets

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is kicking off a “new era” for City Hall – a task that by day two has already included revoking nine executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams and deleting Adams’ old tweets.

The Mayor’s Office of Rodent Mitigation is gone, as is the Mayor’s Office of Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology. Soon, all of Adams’ old posts on X trumpeting his war on rats and the power of cryptocurrency will be gone from the social media platform too. 

The Mamdani administration is in the process of deleting Adams’ old tweets – an action that drew ire from the National Jewish Advocacy Center Thursday, as some of the first tweets deleted referenced fighting antisemitism.

Mamdani’s 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. “This ongoing process is administrative in nature and is not based on the content of the posts,” Pekec said in a statement. 

Council Member Gale Brewer, a passionate advocate for archiving records, said she didn’t have a problem with deleting posts, as long as the old posts are archived somewhere. “If it’s archived, it’s accessible,” she said.

Accessing the archived tweets, however, is not the most user-friendly process. The city Department of Records and Information Services’ Social Media Archive 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 “NYC Mayor” account now managed by the Mamdani administration.

Concerns about digital records-keeping and transparency arose four years ago, when then-City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams’ office deactivated her predecessor Corey Johnson’s separate Twitter account. Legislation sponsored by Brewer passed last year ensuring that government social media accounts were archived on a publicly accessible site.

Mamdani’s second executive order, issued on Thursday soon after his inauguration, revoked all executive orders issued on or before September 26, 2024 – the day Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges – as part of a stated desire to ensure a “fresh start.” But for a period between Thursday night and Friday morning, it was difficult to tell which executive orders were affected, as the city’s website tracking executive orders and other items – like press releases and statements – had been wiped clean of anything prior to Jan. 1, 2026. As of Friday afternoon, however, all of those old items were back up. 

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.

(The Adams executive orders that were revoked include EOs 45, 46, 49, 50, 52, 56, 57, 60 and 63. Those orders always remained searchable on Google if you knew what to search.)

Beyond the deleted X posts, local Jewish organizations and the Israeli government also objected to Mamdani’s 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’s definition of antisemitism, which includes in its scope some criticism of Israel. Mamdani said Friday that some other Jewish organizations have “immense concerns” about that definition of antisemitism, but said that his administration will be “relentless” 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.

Though Mamdani has been off to a busy start, 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 from City Hall listed a campaign email address as a point of contact – 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 “unforced error.” And an X post from an official city account misspelled his name as “Mamadani.” That post too, was deleted, but was reposted with a correction.