"The segment featured interviews with migrants who were sent to a notorious El Salvador prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, under President Donald Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration. The story was pulled from Global Television Network, one of Canada's largest networks, but still ran on the network's app. Global Television Network swiftly corrected the error, but copies of it continued to float around the internet and pop up before being taken down."
""Paramount's content protection team is in the process of routine take down orders for the unaired and unauthorized segment," a CBS spokesperson said Tuesday via email. A representative of Global Television Network did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In the story, two men who were deported reported torture, beatings and abuse. One Venezuelan said he was punished with sexual abuse and solitary confinement. Another was a college student who said guards beat him and knocked out his tooth upon arrival."
""When you get there, you already know you're in hell. You don't need anyone to tell you," he said. The segment featured numerous experts who called into question the legal basis for deporting migrants so hastily amid pending judicial decisions. Reporters for the show also corroborated findings by Human Rights Watch suggesting that only eight of the deported men had been sentenced for violent or potentially violent crimes, using available ICE data. The decision to pull a story critical of the Trump administration was met with widespread accusations that CBS leadership was shielding the president from unfavorable coverage."
Global Television Network pulled a news segment examining deportations to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) but the piece briefly aired on the network's app before removal. Interviews with deported men allege torture, beatings, sexual abuse, solitary confinement and other mistreatment; one reported a lost tooth. Reporters corroborated Human Rights Watch findings and ICE data indicating only eight deportees had violent convictions. Paramount issued takedown requests for unauthorized copies. The pull prompted accusations that network leadership protected the Trump administration from criticism and sparked wider concern about media independence.
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