Several government websites have been withdrawn, including USAID.GOV, Forestrowssistance.gov, Neglédeddises.gov and Enfantsinadversy.Gov. A wired analysis of more than 1,000 federal websites .GOV revealed that at least seven sites related to a server in the USAID were offline in two hours on Saturday afternoon.
Friday, Reuters reported This word of sites put out of line was the result of confusion around new directives on the language authorized to appear on federal sites. The agencies had been invited to “eliminate all the media outside (websites, social media accounts, etc.) which instill or promoted the genre ideology” before 5 p.m. Hne, Friday, January 31.
This decision is the last stage of the Trump administration’s decision to radically redo the US government. Shortly after taking office, the The Trump administration has shot reproductiverights.govwhich provided information on reproductive health care. An increasing number of American government’s websites have been offline since mid-January.
In addition to the sites affiliated with the USAID server, Youth.Gov – an American government site focused on supporting young people – appears offline in the past 24 hours. Before it is removed, an archived version of the Wayback Machine He showed it with an article entitled “Preparation of the National Service Day MLK Jr.”.
A USAID employee told Wired that staff are rushing to save digital copies from the archived versions of the site, and that at least some are locked up with their systems, including staff files, the remuneration and information on benefits. “Decades of reports and analyzes financed by taxpayers have disappeared in an instant,” said the employee, who asked for anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the press. “We have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes or what will be back, when and in what form.”
Adding the employee: “Staff cannot even enter the DEC (Development Experience Clearinghouse, a database accessible to the public of USAID documents) to secure copies of free access reports.”
Another USAID employee told Wired that they still had access to internal work systems on Saturday afternoon, but have limited visibility on what’s going on and why.
“We were not allowed to be in contact with our partners,” said the employee, who also obtained anonymity. “We were kept in the dark, and this is only an extension of this.” The employee added that he feared that the agency will be reduced to a “skeleton of what we were”.
Other sites, including HealthData.Gov, Oversight.gov and Vaccines.Gov, have also become dark. It is not yet known whether these brief withdrawals are linked to the recent decree or if some are due to unrelated technical problems. However, some sites, such as Prosperafrica.Gov, explicitly declare: “In order to be consistent with the decrees of the president, this website is currently undergoing maintenance, because we quickly and in depth all the content”.
Wired Built Software to systematically check the state of 1,374 government domains. The tool performs periodic analyzes, following if the sites remain accessible, how their servers react and whether domain names are still resolved. This allows us to monitor availability models and take times when the sites suddenly disappear – sometimes reappearing minutes or hours later. Some of these breakdowns can be attributed to routine maintenance or technical problems. Others suggest broader infrastructure failures or deliberate moves.