The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) removed nearly 400 videos from its YouTube page, which had 15,000 subscribers and was created in 2011. The removals form part of a bigger dismantling of the agency, which oversees consumer protection issues arising from financial services.
The removals include Facebook and X accounts for the agency, which have been taken down, although it is unclear when. The homepage of the CFPB website delivers a 404 error message, although other pages are still active.
The removals seem to have come in this wider dismantling of the agency covering consumer protection issues in financial services. This area increasingly includes tech players, including X, owned by the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk. About 20 techie staffers were suddenly terminated on Thursday evening, ravaging a team that had furnished substantial expertise to account for the wrongdoings of firms in their provisioning of financial technology services.
At the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency, the government had to hurriedly dismantle webpages to comply with his executive orders. Initially, during this week, many of these webpages hosting health content were brought back online on a court order with no consequence. Today, however, another court has issued a stay against any future firings of CFPB staff without cause and ordered the Bureau to refrain from erasing agency records or data until a hearing set for March 3.