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Re:CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recrea... by oofbey on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:11AM (#50039726)
What happened to the CIA world factbook? It was great.
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Re:CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recrea... by serf on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:12AM (#50039729)
"On February 4, 2026, following the restriction and closure since 2025 of other government-funded information websites, the CIA announced, with no warning and no explanation, that The World Factbook was discontinued."[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Factbook

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Re:CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recrea... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:54AM (#50039924)
Do we have a credible source tying this to DOGE?
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Re:CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recrea... by bartread on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:59AM (#50041480)
No, but CNN linked its shutdown to budget cuts (also mentioned on the Wikipedia page).
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Re:CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recrea... by tejtm on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:34AM (#50039827)
It got spellchecked into the boards

Maybe @dang can fix the autocorecto

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Re:CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recrea... by dang on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:36PM (#50046345)
Yes, we've defaced it now.

(p.s. @dang doesn't work - I just saw this randomly. If you want semi-reliable message delivery, [email protected] is the only thing that works.)

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Re:CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recrea... by tejtm on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:31PM (#50093667)
maybe @dang should work ;)
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