Had a Kuwaiti news article on desert land grabs vanish overnight

I was reading a local report about government seizure of Bedouin plots in Kuwait City around 2 AM, then the page just 404'd the next morning. Has anyone else seen whole stories disappear like that from regional news sites?

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gavin_clark9d ago

Honestly that tracks with pretty much everything I've seen in the region. Local news sites are notorious for scrubbing anything that makes the government look bad, especially after the morning shift comes in and someone notices the story was up all night. Tbh it's probably still sitting in a cached version on some random archive site if you really dig for it. Ngl I stopped relying on those outlets for anything more than sports scores and weather forecasts years ago.

iris_rivera449d ago

Holy crap wait, you caught it actually 404 in real time?? That's wild (and honestly kind of terrifying). I had almost the same thing happen to me with a story about land disputes in Amman a few months back - I actually bookmarked it to read later that night and by morning it was just... gone. Not even a redirect or an error page with a message, just a blank white screen like it never existed. Makes you wonder how much stuff gets quietly buried before anyone even gets a chance to screenshot it.