The Office of Personnel Management, the chief human resources agency and personnel policy manager for the federal government, said Friday that it gave no orders to shut down government websites.

Some government webpages briefly went dark Friday, according to multiple media reports. Pages for the Federal Aviation Administration, the Census Bureau and the Department of Justice were among those that went blank. Those three later came back online.

The OPM said there was confusion over a new Trump administration policy requiring agencies to scrub any mentions of gender ideology on their websites by 5 p.m. ET on Friday.

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