NASA scrubbed its website to remove mentions of minorities and inclusion
NASA scrubbed its website to remove mentions of minorities and inclusion
Change logs show that NASA has removed mentions of underrepresented people from various parts of its website.
What's True
The space agency's website had been scrubbed and changed to remove references to inclusion, diversity, gender and minorities, among other terms. It had also been modified to remove Spanish translations "per Fed mandate," according to NASA website change logs on GitHub. Further, a feature about one woman, geologist Wendy Bohon, had been removed from the website two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump took office. However …
What's False
… a page about women at NASA still appeared on the website as of this writing.
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