2025-03-07 01:19:23

US to revoke student visas over ‘pro-Hamas’ social media posts flagged by AI - report

State department launches AI-assisted reviews of accounts to look for what it perceives as Hamas supportersThe US state department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Hamas, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior state department officials.Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’s October 2023 attack. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/foreign-student-visas-pro-palestinian-ai

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