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On Tuesday morning, the webpage for A&E’s 8 Minutes — and all the episodes — were gone after allegations reported by BuzzFeed News that the show lied to sex workers. A&E has still not commented. [Update: After being contacted by BuzzFeed News, the show’s page — but not the episodes — was again live.]

A screenshot from the A&E 8 Minutes show's page taken Monday afternoon, May 4, 2015.

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The day after BuzzFeed News published a report detailing allegations that A&E's 8 Minutes lied to sex workers filmed for the show, A&E's webpage for the show was gone, along with all the episodes.

Four sex workers told BuzzFeed News that the reality show lied to them about the terms of their participation in the show; three of the women said 8 Minutes, which purported to help women who wanted to get out of sex work, never gave them the assistance they were promised.

The link, which was active on Monday, to the main show page now redirects to the A&E home page. Individual show links now display a message that the episode is "no longer available to stream."

Despite having removed the show from its prior place on the website, representatives from A&E still have not publicly commented on the allegations made by the women. Representatives also would not comment on the record in response to additional questions on Tuesday about why the show had been removed from its place on the website and apparently was no longer available on the website at all.

[Update at 3:22 p.m.: After BuzzFeed News informed an A&E representative that it would be publishing a report on the removal of the website, A&E refused to comment on the record. Minutes later, however, the show's page — though not the episodes — was, again, live on A&E's website.]

Two of the sex workers told BuzzFeed News that they stopped working in anticipation of assistance that never came; three said their livelihood suffered as a result of being on the show. One said she was essentially fired by her pimp after the show did not blur her face as she requested.

Furthermore, A&E did little to protect several women's privacy, airing information about them on television that made it fairly easy for this reporter to find them.

"Who will fix all these lives?" Kamylla, one of the women who alleged she was lied to, said to BuzzFeed News following publication of the initial report.