"The report by 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, which was supposed to air on the show's episode this past Sunday evening, covered the stories of migrants deported by the Trump administration to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT, a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador with a documented history of human rights abuses. The CECOT segment did air on Canadian networks and has been spreading rapidly online, despite CBS' efforts to get platforms to take down the clip."
"In my view, pulling it now after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one, Alfonsi added, blasting Weiss for giving the Trump administration a kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient, and betraying the men who risked their lives to speak with us."
Bari Weiss, CBS News editor-in-chief, spiked a 60 Minutes segment hours before broadcast, prompting accusations of politically motivated censorship. The piece by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi documented migrants deported by the Trump administration to Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), a Salvadoran maximum-security prison with recorded human rights abuses. The segment aired on Canadian networks and spread online despite CBS attempts to remove clips. Alfonsi said the report had been screened multiple times and cleared by CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices, calling the pull political. Weiss said the story was not ready and needed additional reporting. Social media responses flooded 60 Minutes' accounts with criticism.
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