Jackie Robinson Earlier this week, the headlines made for all the wrong reasons when a web page in honor of the Major League Baseball Great was removed from a website of the Ministry of Defense dedicated to athletes who served in the army.
The media have beaten it as an example of Donald Trump’s Anti-dei policy that Amok runs.
Different ESPN personalities, for example, immediately attacked the removal, based on a poor intention by the Trump government.
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Late MLB icon Jackie Robinson (Hulton Archive/Getty images)
Jeff Passan said that the people who removed the Robinson article were “Ghouls”, “Mina Kimes claimed that the Dod was trying to” erase “Robinson in history and Stephen A. Smith said that the removal was not a fair mistake at all.”
Now, Outkick has learned how it happened. According to an official from the Ministry of Defense with knowledge of the situation, a group of DOD employees were instructed on 27 February to mark all the pages considered to be dei content.
Those employees received about a week to investigate thousands of documents. Due to the condensed timeline, various errors were made throughout the process, including marking the Jackie Robinson article, including Dei.
Sean Parnell, assistant of the United States of the Minister of Defense for Public Affairs, confirmed the same amount in a statement released on Thursday.
“In recent weeks we have taken action to identify and archive the content of our websites and social media platforms,” ​​said Parnell.
“Without a doubt, this task was a tough but incredibly important undertaking. We have forced an aggressive timeline for our DOD services and agencies to comb through a huge range of content, while making sure that our power remains ready and deadly.”
On March 4, 1946, the Jackie Robinson file photo of the Baseball Team of Montreal Royals, in Sanford, FLA. Already in the foreground on the 75-year anniversary of breaking the color barrier of Baseball, the life of Jackie Robinson, Legacy and Impact is honored as part of the 2022 Baseball All-Star game in Los Angels. (AP Photo/Bill Chaplis, File)
After the articles were marked, “dei” was added to the URL so that automated software could later remove all marked pages. According to the source of the Ministry of Defense, there was little supervision of the people who carried out the assessment, which contributed to the errors.
While Parnell claimed that “AI tools” were the most important contributing factor to the errors, the departmental officer noted that the original source of marking came from department staff.
“Every now and then, because of the reality of AI tools and other software, some important content was wrongly pulled offline to be assessed,” said Parnell.
The departmental officer said that the Robinson article was wrongly removed, but Parnell hinted that some of the other content that was drawn was perhaps not the result of an error.
“When content is wrongly removed, or if it is malicious, we will continue to work quickly to restore it,” said Parnell.
The Robinson articleTogether with many others, since then have been restored to the website of the Ministry of Defense.
The American professional baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) of the Brooklyn Dodgers, dressed in a road uniform, squats at the base and prepares for Catch a Ball, 1951. (Keystone/Getty Images)
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In the meantime, the Washington Post has reported that a senior spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense, John Ullyot, has been removed from his role and is expected to be again granted after giving a doubtful statement in the aftermath of the Robinson situation.
The explanation included: “discriminatory share ideology”, divides the power, erodes unit cohesion and interferes with the nuclear war mission of the services. “
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