- The least harmful thing the CIA has ever done was its World Factbook, a sort of proto-Wikipedia. Now it's gone, suddenly, killed by Trump. You can download the 2020 edition below, and older and more recent ones are available on the Wayback Machine, here: web.archive.org/web/20260131...
- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Thank you to Simon Willison for alerting us to this and for hosting the 2020 edition!Feb 5, 2026 02:25
