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US to screen social media of foreign students for anti-American content (www.france24.com)
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The State Department had temporarily paused issuing visas for foreign students at the end of May while it came up with the new social media guidance and it will now resume taking appointments.

"The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country," a senior State Department official said.

US consular officers will conduct a conduct a "comprehensive and thorough vetting of all student and exchange visitor applicants," the official said.

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[โ€“] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nobody with any expertise wants to travel there.

[โ€“] andybytes@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've seen people who act like tyrants, create all types of hell for people. And then they isolate themselves. They become irrelevant and no one fucking cares about them. That's the United States in a nutshell. America is just creating or committing collective suicide. Both parties, by the way. This country is such a limp dick.