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The CIA World Factbook was a trusted source of information. It didn't make money, and wasn't meant to. It told the truth, so Trump shut it down.
#CIA #CIAWorldFactbpok #WorldFactbook #Jeopardy #TrivialPursuit
Hard to believe the Factbook’s going dark. It’s been one of the most trusted open-source snapshots of the world for decades. Losing a tool like that feels like losing a small piece of public transparency. #CIA #WorldFactbook #Transparency #intelligencecommunity www.engadget.com/big-tech/the...
Fact-based information is essential — especially in education and research. I’m calling for the immediate reinstatement of public access to the CIA World Factbook.
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#Transparency #OpenKnowledge #CivicEd #WorldFactbook
Die #CIA hat das #WorldFactbook nach über 60 Jahren ohne Angabe von Gründen eingestellt.
Die Seite gehörte zu den ältesten Angeboten im #Internet und bot umfassende #Informationen sowie statistische #Daten zu Ländern und Regionen. Auch frühere Versionen wurden entfernt, bleiben jedoch über das […]
📣 Another call for action, #DataRescuers! 📣 This time, Christopher Steven Marcum shares the request to save #WorldFactbook, including ways you can get involved. Learn more: www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-t...
“If the #WorldFactbook was indeed shut down because it didn’t meet Ratcliffe’s standard for core #CIA functions, that reflects the #Trump administration’s impoverished view of the #government’srole.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"The demise of the CIA’s venerable #WorldFactbook is the Trump administration’s latest attack on the shared factual basis for a functioning democracy."
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One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. Let’s take a quick look into the history of The World Factbook.
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The disappearance of the #WorldFactbook is another glaring example of how regimes hate & suppress information.
Secondly, this announcement does not appear to have been composed by a human.
CIA Has Killed Off The World Factbook After Six Decades #Technology #Other #CIA #WorldFactbook #InformationResources
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Gift article even worse than the world fact booked no longer being updated is erasing the world fact book. Another example of the current regime trying to erase history. Seriously? With no explanation no warning no archiving. Is this really 1984? #worldfactbook www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
RIP👋🏾 😢 Farewell, World Factbook.
What a journey of 60 years! Can't believe you are gone.
#worldfactbook #goodbye #RIP
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
#WorldFactBook
#DefendDemocracy
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That agonizing 😱 you are hearing is from the thousands of #Wikipedia editors who know their articles have links to the #WorldFactBook in them that now are dead and need to be re-linked to archive links! 🤯
And also every researcher […]
A blue-skinned figure in a suit and sunglasses reads a pink book, while a second figure with orange skin and a black bar over their eyes stands behind.
The CIA just stopped publishing the World Factbook—probably because they realized facts are harder to redact than fiction.
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#politics #satire #WorldFactbook
"The #WorldFactbook appealed to researchers, news organizations, teachers, students, and international travelers."
Indeed, it was so popular that the CIA has decided to stop publishing it!
#geography #trivia #ReferenceBooks 🌎 📖
