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Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 3 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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Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 3 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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    Pretty sure an org whose job is to sew disinformation isn’t a great places for facts

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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.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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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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    Hopefully the techies don’t destroy all the backups and it can be put back online once this current madness is history.

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      Pretty sure this

      Hopefully the techies destroy all the backups

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      and it can be put back once this current madness is history.

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        Thanks, I accidentally a word

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          Figured, but I can’t resist playing with such things and giving everyone a hard time. <3 It’s too fun.

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    I remember having a copy on 3 1/2" floppy disk back in the mid-80s. It was a pretty nice resource.

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