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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
The CIA kills the World Factbook
Now that the CIA World Factbook is gone, you will wish it was back.
paidprotester.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:30 AM
dukieboy2.bsky.social
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...
February 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
danielgsobczak.bsky.social
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
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February 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
tinoeberl.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
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 […]
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February 7, 2026 at 7:08 AM
hackaday-com.1440.news
#internetHacks #news #cia #referenceBooks #worldFactbook
CIA’s World Factbook is Gone
by Al Williams — Before the Internet, there was a certain value to knowing how to find out about things. Reference librarians could help you locate specialized data like the Thomas Register, the EE …read more
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February 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM
datarescueproject.org
📣 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...
Guest Post: The World Factbook is Gone
Today's post is by Christopher Steven Marcum, an Open Science Advocate and former senior personnel at the Office of Management and Budget. On February 4, 2026, the CIA made the surprising decision to…
www.datarescueproject.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
dbcurren.bsky.social
“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/...
America Is Losing the Facts That Hold It Together
The Trump administration is erasing the country’s shared understanding.
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
duck60.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u... #WorldFactBook
C.I.A. World Factbook Ends Publication After 6 Decades
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:38 PM
ampicard.bsky.social
"The demise of the CIA’s venerable #WorldFactbook is the Trump administration’s latest attack on the shared factual basis for a functioning democracy."
@theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 PM
gentlem.bsky.social
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
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.
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.
February 6, 2026 at 10:58 AM
puretech.news
CIA Has Killed Off The World Factbook After Six Decades #Technology #Other #CIA #WorldFactbook #InformationResources

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/05/187252/cia-has-killed-off-the-world-factbook-after-six-decades?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
CIA Has Killed Off The World Factbook After Six Decades - Slashdot
The CIA has shut down The World Factbook, one of its oldest and most recognizable public-facing intelligence publications, ending a run that began as a classified reference document in 1962 and evolved into a freely accessible digital resource that drew millions of views each year. The agency offe...
news.slashdot.org
February 6, 2026 at 8:54 AM
sclisa.bsky.social
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/...
America Is Losing the Facts That Hold It Together
The Trump administration is erasing the country’s shared understanding.
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:20 AM
izzos.net
Great...I'd hoped this was about them nuking the WorldFactBook and not like...actual nukes.
February 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
detroitjcs.bsky.social
RIP👋🏾 😢 Farewell, World Factbook.

What a journey of 60 years! Can't believe you are gone.

#worldfactbook #goodbye #RIP
February 5, 2026 at 1:04 PM
stollmeyer.bsky.social
“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
February 5, 2026 at 12:45 PM
danyork.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116015180016712361

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 […]
February 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM
polititoons.bsky.social
The CIA just stopped publishing the World Factbook—probably because they realized facts are harder to redact than fiction.

Tag someone who needs this!

https://polititoons.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=polititoons_organic

#politics #satire #WorldFactbook
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.
February 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"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 🌎 📖
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell - CIA
www.cia.gov
February 5, 2026 at 2:54 AM
ibitpichu.bsky.social
Never tell your enemies what you like or they'll destroy it

like they did the CIA Worldfactbook
February 5, 2026 at 12:28 AM
vickigonterman.bsky.social
Just in case U.S. lawmakers need this information:
You can download The CIA World Factbook 2025 at www.cia.gov/worldfactbook or you can order the book from a bookstore or Amazon.

By the way, Iran’s population is around 92 million in 2025.
www.cia.gov
June 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM