‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump immigration crackdown accidentally airs on Canadian app
The ‘60 Minutes’ segment on migrants sent to a notorious El Salvador mega-prison was quickly removed, but copies have spread online
A news segment about the Trump administration’s immigration policy that was abruptly pulled from 60 Minutes was mistakenly aired on a television app after the last-minute decision not to air it touched off a public debate about journalistic independence.
The segment featured interviews with migrants who were sent to a notorious El Salvador prison called the Terrorism Confinement Centre, or CECOT, under US 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 unauthorised segment,” a CBS spokesperson said on Tuesday via email.
A representative of Global Television Network did not immediately respond to a request for comment.