The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/
@simon removing sources of information is entirely consistent with preferring an uneducated uninformed electorate. I believe it was Reagan‘s advisors that warned him that an educated electorate was a threat to their policies.
So now when the Dear Leader stands up to pontificate about other countries there is no CIA source available to contradict him.
The US is now a backward country with increasing levels of illiteracy and education becoming increasingly unattainable for most
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