Several state websites were taken, including the USAID.GOV, Foreignassistance.gov, neglectedisases.gov and childreninadversity.gov. A wired analysis of more than 1,000 Bundes-GOV websites showed that at least seven websites linked to a USAIS server went offline in two hours on Saturday afternoon.
On Friday, Reuters reported This word of the offline locations was the result of confusion in relation to new guidelines about the language that was allowed to appear in federal locations. The agencies were instructed to defeat all of the media confronted outwards (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that introduce or promote gender ideology at 5:00 p.m. ES on Friday, January 31.
The step is the latest step in the movement of the Trump government to radically redesign the US government. Shortly after taking office the Trump Administration has decreased reproduction directories. GOVprovided the information on reproductive health care. Since mid-January, more and more websites of the US government have been offline.
Together with websites associated with the USASIS server, Youth.Gov – a US government that focuses on the support of youth programs – appears offline over the past 24 hours. Before it was decreased, an archived version from the Wayback machine There was a contribution entitled “Preparation for the MLK Jr. National Day of Service”.
A USAID employee informs WIRED that the employees are trying to save digital copies of regulations from archived versions of the website, and that at least some are blocked from their systems, including personnel files, payment and performance information. “The reports and analyzes worth decades financed by taxpayers have passed in a moment,” says the employee, who asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press. “We have no idea what happens behind the scenes or what will be back, when and in what form.”
The employee added: “The employees cannot even get into the DEC (Development Experience Clearinghouse, a publicly available database with USAD documents) to secure copies of Open -Access reports.”
Another USAID employee announces WIRED that he still had access to internal work systems from Saturday afternoon, but only a limited view of what happens and why happens.
“We were not allowed to get in touch with our partners,” says the employee, who was also granted anonymity. “We were kept in the dark, and that’s just an expansion of it.” The employee added that they fear that the agency on a “skeleton of what we were”.
Other locations, including Healthdata.gov, oversight.gov and vaccines. It remains unclear whether these short takedowns are connected to the latest implementation regulations or whether some technical problems are due to non -related technical problems. However, on some websites such as Prosperafrica.gov, it is expressly stated: “In order to coordinate the president’s executive orders, this website is currently being intensified because we check all content quickly and thoroughly.”
Cycled software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government areas. The tool carries out regular scans and pursues whether websites remain accessible, how their servers react and whether the domain names are still dissolving. This enables us to monitor patterns in availability and catch moments when suddenly disappearing – sometimes again minutes or hours later. Some of these failures can be attributed to routine maintenance or technical disorders. Others propose existing infrastructure errors or deliberate distances.
