News Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention
News Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention
Mar 19 2025, 5:47 PM
Quote:Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the department has scrambled to comply with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s order to scrub “diversity” content from all its platforms.
Quote:Much of the content has been scrubbed not by individual units, but by an automated script run by DoD’s public web administrators...
That automated process has led to “a high level of irresponsible collateral damage,” one of the defense officials said. “People don’t understand the scope and the carelessness of ‘unpublishing’ that’s happened,” the official said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/politics/pentagon-website-purge
Quote:Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the department has scrambled to comply with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s order to scrub “diversity” content from all its platforms.
Quote:Much of the content has been scrubbed not by individual units, but by an automated script run by DoD’s public web administrators...
That automated process has led to “a high level of irresponsible collateral damage,” one of the defense officials said. “People don’t understand the scope and the carelessness of ‘unpublishing’ that’s happened,” the official said.