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State Department Will Use AI to Search for 'Pro-Hamas' Students to Deport


The new move is part of a broader attack by the Trump administration on free speech and free expression.

The U.S. State Department is set to launch a program called “Catch and Revoke” that will use AI systems to scan news reports and the social media accounts of students in America on a visa. The unspecified AI will crawl through footage and news reports of protests as well as the social media accounts of 100,000 people who are in America’s Student Exchange Visitor System. “We found literally zero visa revocations during the Biden administration…which suggests a blind eye attitude toward law enforcement,” a State Department official told Axios.

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