Yesterday ABC released an article detailing $6 billion in corrupt business dealings between trump’s kids and the US government. 6 hours later this article was censored.

It has been removed from the front page, the reporter’s page, and a direct link 404’s. It has been completely removed from ABC’s website. We are very lucky archive.is got there first.

Original article:
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-sons-investments-won-billions-pentagon-contracts-election/story?id=137049598

Archive:
https://archive.is/0r8k8

Supporting articles that cite the original ABC report:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-brothers-pentagon-contracts

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-has-granted-6b-in-contracts-to-arms-makers-his-sons-have-invested-in/

The censorship of news sources is a major point of violence with this regime. Here is a recent article about ABC’s ongoing problems with trump’s personal censorship of their reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/06/disney-trump-abc-fcc

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
    14·
    11 hours ago

    Mod here.

    We occasionally allow sources other than news articles which cannot be replicated otherwise. This appears to be the case here.

    While we cannot be sure that the reason for the removal was censorship, as there are many reasons that an article may be removed. However, it has been cited by other trustworthy news sources, and censorship is a reasonable theory.

    At this time, the post will remain. In the future, please DM a mod prior to posting something that is not normally permitted.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    13 hours ago

    I would not have seen this if you hadn’t posted. Thank you for taking the time to hunt it down. Much appreciated.

    • Nouvellalia@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      5 hours ago

      You are very welcome. Spread it wherever you think it should be posted. The media is so captured now, this is the only way it will get coverage.

      This is like seeing a cockroach. The one that I barely managed to see, means there has probably already been hundreds of these behind the walls that we haven’t seen, just completely quietly removed, and thousands that died before they were even published.

  • trailee@sh.itjust.works
    35·
    22 hours ago

    Kind of amazing it got published in the first place. 6 hours is pretty fast. The removal speaks more about blatant corruption than all of the investments and contracts detailed in the article.

    • Nouvellalia@lemmy.worldOP
      20·
      22 hours ago

      I agree. Also the fact that it’s not really being reported. I waited a day and didn’t see any. So I figured I should post something.

      I did finally find a single Yahoo News blurb, but that wasn’t surfacing when I checked this afternoon.

    • Boo! Haunted House!@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      20 hours ago

      The removal speaks more about blatant corruption than all of the investments and contracts detailed in the article.

      The Weissand Effect in action.