A 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Barry Weiss censored is now blocked online

yesterday, Barry Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS Newsshe censored part of her news magazine 60 minutes About the men who were deported to an El Salvador prison. Today, it appeared online.

60 minutes It has already started promoting the now regulated sector online. Because it was pulled so late, CBS appears to have missed out on at least one platform for distribution: Canada Universal Television. Some people used a VPN to watch it; At least one person recorded it and distributed it via an iCloud account.

Part reviewed by Edgea little shy of 14 minutes. It shows a video of men, chained and bent over, “being paraded in front of cameras, pushed onto buses, and delivered to CECOT,” according to the clip’s narration. One former detainee interviewed by CBS Colombia said he was told he was the “living dead” at CECOT. After trying to seek asylum in the United States, he said he was detained by customs and detained for 6 months before being deported. He described the horrific conditions in prison, saying that he was beaten until he bled and that he was thrown against the wall so forcefully that he broke a tooth. He also described sexual assault by guards. Another former detainee interviewed described what could only be described as torture: being forced to kneel for 24 hours, placed in a dark room, where they were beaten if they moved from the stressful position.

Men were among those who were He was deported to El SalvadorA country they are not from. The Trump administration sent at least 288 people, most of them Venezuelans and Salvadorans, to CECOT after El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, offered to house the prisoners for a fee. Many people were deported They were waiting for asylum casesAccording to New York Times. This is perhaps the most egregious and sensational human rights violations by the Trump administration, and a vital area for continued reporting.

The Trump administration has more deals like the one with CECOT in the pipeline, worth “millions of dollars,” according to the sector. The United States may begin deporting people to places they have nothing to do with, such as South Sudan and Uganda, which also have a “well-documented history of torturing prisoners.”

The story, as well as breaking news about deals with other countries, appears to have been widely publicized, and both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and El Salvador were given opportunities to comment.

“Our story was run five times and approved by CBS attorneys, standards and practices,” Sharyn Alfonsi, the reporter whose segment it was, wrote in an email to colleagues yesterday. New York Times. “This is factually correct. In my view, withdrawing it now, after all the rigorous internal scrutiny has been completed, is not an editorial decision, but rather a political decision.”

The story received all the usual approvalsincluding Weiss, who suddenly changed her mind. She requested additional reporting, “including an on-camera interview with a member of the Trump administration,” according to what Reuters reported. The Washington Post. The story was killed on Saturday night, and promotional materials were removed on Sunday. Weiss sent a memorandum of amendment saying, among other things, that The passage did not adequately explain the administration’s rationale for sending people to El Salvador.

The remarks do not seem unreasonable, except for their timing, which was late, awkward, and practically calculated to cause a stir. It seems that because the order to end the story came so late, not every distributor has replaced the software.

Weiss was put in charge of CBS News by David Ellison as part of a fairly apparent attempt to appease the Trump administration and allow his company, Skydance, to be acquired by CBS’ parent company, Paramount. President Donald Trump has repeatedly complained about CBS — and 60 minutes’ Work in particular. Just before the Skydance acquisition, Paramount paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump over editing applied to an interview with Kamala Harris.

Ellison’s Skydance is now trying to buy Warner Bros. In a hostile offer.

Weiss claimed in an opening call on Monday that she “held that story because it wasn’t ready,” according to The Washington Post. The team had given the White House an opportunity to comment, but the Trump administration refused, according to the newspaper mail. “If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to interviews,’ the government is effectively gaining control of 60 Minutes. We go from investigative force to state stenographer,” Alfonsi wrote in her email.

Anyway, good luck to Weiss playing DMCA whack-a-mole with the story video. This sector lives as samizdat online now. Thanks to Vice’s oversight, it may end up being CBS’s most talked-about news story of the year.