GLAAD condemns Trump administration for wiping LGBTQ and HIV-focused content

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7. "Someone had to be working on these changes before he was inaugurated."

Most if not all of the agency websites are maintained by contracted web services personnel so what most likely happened was a "stop work" order notice was given to those contractors, and the URLs for specified sites at various agencies, were pointed to one of 45's "generic" 404 pages (the files for that supplied to the agency IT staff to give to the contractors).

The info is probably still there but not publicly accessible. Of course the various web archives on the internet have snapshots of it.

But as a note, there is some info on those sites that might be considered "government records", and if completely wiped, would be a violation of the Federal Records Act.