It was deliberate. Lying only makes the crime worse.

You know *exactly* what happened, you have the logs. We can all see it was a deliberate act to remove those specific passages, because that material was stripped from multiple pages. You have just confirmed that you are craven cowards, in addition to being followers of illegal fascist orders.

I am going to remind you. Nobody believes that was a coding error. Nobody. The website worked fine before. Suddenly it's not? No. We're all aware that the person in charge of the Library of Congress is a Trump Cockholster. Get over yourself, and do us all a favor.

I 100% believe this was a coding error. "Screwing up an xml tag and killing the remainder of output and then pushing to prod because there's no error msg" is exactly the kind of mistake every programmer has made at his job at least once. Y'all are circlejerking here against some great librarians.

I 100% believe you are laughably gullible.

Your orange skinned dictator already deleted habeas corpus in practice. You guys just made it official: The United States is a Banana Republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Translation: We tried to be sneaky, but we got caught. It's back up now - oopsie woopsie!

Yep.

tenor.com/view/fake-co...

You're lying.

Hmmm… Does this happen often? It’s a shame someone has to find the omissions on their own. Now that everyone knows, it’s important for your team to explain how it happened and how it will not ever happen again in the future. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

We can see you. You all know that, right??? I think someone needs at your agency needs to testify to Congress and give all of us a few explanation. Because, we are not buying your bold-faced lies.

I don’t believe you.

BUT WHAT WAS THE TAG FOR? "...the Library of Congress explained on X that Its team inadvertently removed a tag in the code while updating the annotations for the section..."

No one is buying this. At least have the courage to tell the truth.

This is insulting to Americans' intellect. You could have at least tried to make a more convincing lie.

It’s fine. We’ve got millions of printed copies of the full text of historical works scattered around the globe. The LoC is only of minor importance, right? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Do yall not do QA testing before pushing changes into Production?? So you either have nonexistent testing or this was purposeful. Both of these are very bad 😡.

It was clearly purposeful and, I'm hoping that part about making "sure it never happens again" refers to people being eligible for unemployment tomorrow.

Lol they’re being promoted as we speak.

`git blame`

give us the full commit history. We want to see it.