Posted by kshahkshah 1 day ago
where we're going, we don't need "facts"
Not that that has anything to do with the current administration deciding to kill a useful apolitical resource that has served countless people for 80 years.
I thought the CIA was formed to represent rich people's interests and maybe in that way the Factbook was another trick to lend legitimacy to their organization.
> In 1971, the Factbook was created as an annual summary of the NIS studies and in 1973 it supplanted the NIS encyclopedic studies as CIA’s publication of basic intelligence. It was first made available to the public in 1975 and in 1981 was renamed The World Factbook.
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/history-of-the-world-factb...
The World Facebook is one of the most cited sources on Wikipedia.