"On February 4, 2026, following the restriction and closure since 2025 of other government-funded information websites, the CIA announced, with no warning and no explanation, that The World Factbook was discontinued."[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Factbook

It got spellchecked into the boards

Maybe @dang can fix the autocorecto

If more people visited it instead of asking what happened, they probably could have justified their budget for existing.

Traffic was likely low and did not justify the manpower for upkeep.

No, it was a guidebook anyone could use for just about every country. It well predates PRISM, and was well regarded until it was discontinued.

Freudian Slip. Everyone knows that Facebook is Five Eyes Book/Mossadbook

It was a literal factbook online. In high school, I remember using it to look up facts like the area or population of different countries.

I thought it was a site exposing CIA undercover agents

CIA Factbook was mundane things like population, land area, system of govt, major exports, etc. Stuff that is now on the right-hand sidebar of Wikipedia. Presumably it was made for US govt employees to have a basic understanding of other countries. It was useful to do a 7th grade research report on Uzbekistan circa 1997.

new account, obvious troll

> You know what else they killed

The Biden admin already had a plan in place to dissolve the agency months before the 2024 election even took place. The government tends to not maintain websites for organizations that don't exist anymore. It's hard to get staff to keep the site running when you have zero employees. Not everything is a conspiracy.

You are just making stuff up.

This is what happens when you get your facts from Reddit.