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World News@quokk.au · 2 days ago

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

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Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

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World News@quokk.au · 2 days ago

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The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries.

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CIA factbook is not something I ever trusted enough to read, knowing how full of shit the CIA is and all. The world almanac is what I use.
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  It was by and large just statistics.
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  Now that’s just hurtful, I put a lot of ~~propaganda~~ work into that book

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