The United States government websites are disappearing in real time

Several governmental websites have been eliminated, including USAID.gov, foreigners’s foreigners, neglected designs.gov and Childreninadversity.gov. A wiring analysis of more than 1,000 .GOV federal websites discovered that at least seven sites linked to a USAID server disconnected in a period of two hours on Saturday afternoon.

On Friday, Reuters reported That word of the disconnected sites was the result of confusion around new guidelines on language that are allowed to appear in federal sites. The agencies received instructions to “demolish all external media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that instill or promote gender ideology” at 5 PM EST, Friday, January 31.

The measure is the last step in the Trump administration movement to radically rebuild the United States government. Shortly after assuming the position, the Trump’s administration eliminated reproductiverights.govwhich provided information on reproductive health care. A growing number of US government websites have been disconnected since mid -January.

Together with the USAID server affiliated sites, Youth.gov, a site of the United States government focused on supporting youth programs, appears in the last 24 hours. Before he was shot down, a archived version of the Wayback Machine He showed that he presented a publication entitled, “preparing for the day of the National Service of Mlk Jr.”.

A USAID employee tells Wired that staff members are fighting to save digital copies of the regulations of the archived versions of the site, and that at least some are being blocked from their systems, including personnel files, payment and payment and The benefit information. “Decades of reports and analysis financed by taxpayers were in an instant,” says the employee, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the press. “We have no idea what is happening behind the scene or what will come back, when and how.”

The employee added: “Personnel cannot even enter the DEC (Development Experience Clearinghouse, a publicly available database of USAID documents) to ensure copies of open access reports.”

Another USAID employee tells Wired that he still had access to internal work systems until Saturday afternoon, but they have limited visibility of what is happening and why.

“We have not been allowed to be in contact with our partners,” says the employee, who was also granted anonymity. “They have kept us in the dark, and this is just an extension of that.” The employee added that he worries that the agency be lledged to a “skeleton of what we were.”

Other sites, including Healthdata.gov, superview.gov and vaccines.gov, have also obscured periodically. It is not clear if these short demolitions are linked to the recent executive order or if some are due to unrelated technical problems. However, some sites, such as Prosperafrica.gov, explicitly claim: “To be consistent with the president’s executive orders, this website is currently in maintenance as we review widely already fund we review all the content.”

Wired Built Software to systematically verify the state of 1,374 government domains. The tool executes periodic scans, tracking if the sites remain accessible, how their servers respond and if the domain names are still resolved. This allows us to monitor patterns in the time of activity and capture moments in which the sites suddenly disappear, sometimes reappearing minutes or hours later. Some of these interruptions can be attributed to the maintenance of routine or technical failures. Others suggest broader infrastructure failures or deliberate removals.