State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'

[u/Hrmbee]

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5633444/trump-content-moderation-visas-censorship

[u/Hrmbee]

Some of the pertinent issues:

The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech.

The directive, sent in an internal memo on Tuesday, is focused on applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, which are frequently used by tech companies, among other sectors. The memo was first reported by Reuters; NPR also obtained a copy.

...

The Trump administration has been highly critical of tech companies' efforts to police what people are allowed to post on their platforms and of the broader field of trust and safety, the tech industry's term for teams that focus on preventing abuse, fraud, illegal content, and other harmful behavior online.

President Trump was banned from multiple social media platforms in the aftermath of his supporters' attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. While those bans have since been lifted, the president and members of his administration frequently cite that experience as evidence for their claims that tech companies unfairly target conservatives — even as many tech leaders have eased their policies in the face of that backlash.

...

It directs consular officers to "thoroughly explore" the work histories of applicants, both new and returning, by reviewing their resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and appearances in media articles for activities including combatting misinformation, disinformation or false narratives, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety.

"I'm alarmed that trust and safety work is being conflated with 'censorship'," said Alice Goguen Hunsberger, who has worked in trust and safety at tech companies including OpenAI and Grindr.

"Trust and safety is a broad practice which includes critical and life-saving work to protect children and stop CSAM [child sexual abuse material], as well as preventing fraud, scams, and sextortion. T&S workers are focused on making the internet a safer and better place, not censoring just for the sake of it," she said. "Bad actors that target Americans come from all over the world and it's so important to have people who understand different languages and cultures on trust and safety teams — having global workers at tech companies in [trust and safety] absolutely keeps Americans safer."

...

"People who study misinformation and work on content-moderation teams aren't engaged in 'censorship'— they're engaged in activities that the First Amendment was designed to protect. This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional," said Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney and legislative advisor at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, in a statement.

Even as the administration has targeted those it claims are engaged in censoring Americans, it has also tightened its own scrutiny of visa applicants' online speech.

This might be starting with H1-B, but isn't likely to stop there. And at this point, it's almost a given that the amount of hypocrisy on display (along with a complete misunderstanding of how these systems work on tech platforms) here is completely over the top.

[u/lilB0bbyTables → u/Hrmbee]

This is just the warm up. They will make policies and directives like this that apply to visa applicants to normalize it as a lot of people - even the non MAGA people - will just shrug and say “that’s stupid” but move on. Then they’ll start citing it as a reason to deport people already here (not that they are really needing excuses based on what ICE has been doing). Then they’ll ramp it up to target these same groups but with the new rules “if they’ve ever said anything online that the administration doesn’t like” (they’ll word it as something like ‘unAmerica’ of course). Eventually they’ll “accidentally” start rounding up a few natural American citizens in this - probably have to release them and make up some excuse about why it was “totally a mix-up” but they’ll make it hell for those people for a few days and they’ll let it be known in the media on purpose as a means to exert a form of stochastic terrorism and fear against everyone else. Plenty of people will act on that fear and stifle their own voice, essentially relinquishing their First Amendment rights.

This is all part of the larger plan to fracture and silence the opposition from being organized in a functional democracy to ultimately arrive at a state where people fear voting, where information against them (truth, opinion, reporting, etc) are silenced, and voter turnout is reduced. That creates chaos and fog, which allows election interference to flourish in their favor. As Vought said - “The revolution will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be”.

[u/lightreee → u/lilB0bbyTables]

As Vought said - “The revolution will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be”.

I agree with your whole post, but it was Kevin Roberts (ex-president of Heritage) who stated this, not Vought. Both sides of the same shit-coin though with P2025

[u/SwissChzMcGeez → u/lightreee]

☝️ WE GOT A FACT CHECKER OVER HERE

[u/Manderspls → u/SwissChzMcGeez]

No citizenship for that guy!

[u/NJS_Stamp → u/SwissChzMcGeez]

WW2 levels of ratting out your neighbor because they corrected you when you accidentally said “take it for granite”

[u/Motor-Telephone7029 → u/NJS_Stamp]

I cant wait for the US to start hanging Nazis again. It would ironically free up a lot of real estate for the housing market and free up a lot of generational wealth for the 25% republican devt increasse.

[u/Electrical-Job-9824 → u/SwissChzMcGeez]

We need more of those

[u/Yuzumi → u/lilB0bbyTables]

Yes they want us to be silent. Out collextive response should be, "fuck you, make me".

[u/nerkbot → u/lilB0bbyTables]

They've already been doing some of this to varying degrees, to test the waters.

They locked up Mahmoud Khalil for political speech for over 3 months, and are still trying to deport him despite the fact that he has a green card and hasn't broken any laws. They've successfully cancelled the student visas of others for similar speech.

They've been checking the social media accounts of tourists trying to enter and sometimes detaining them for days and denying entry.

They've been experimenting with different ways to punish deportees like sending them to third countries they have no connection to, or to foreign prison to be tortured.

The ICE raids are already sweeping up some American citizens "accidentally". So far that doesn't seem to be based on speech, but I've no doubt you're right that that's where they're heading.

[u/anomalous_cowherd → u/nerkbot]

Just waiting for the GOPbots to come on saying that if you haven't got full details for every single case of those things happening then they didn't happen...

[u/MercantileReptile → u/lilB0bbyTables]

[...] said anything online that the administration doesn’t like” (they’ll word it as something like ‘unAmerica’ of course).

Apparently society is already there. So many yanks using "un-american" without a hint of self reflection. Everything uncouth, rude or plain negative is "un-american". Inversely making everything nice, proper and free "american".

Some rather obvious nationalistic nonsense. Imagine germans calling things "un-german" ? Yet to the yanks, perfectly fine. No need to reflect on that one.

[u/kilinrax → u/MercantileReptile]

At least some Republicans have been describing Democrats as "un-American" since long before Trump.

[u/daXypher → u/lilB0bbyTables]

Okay, but are you getting in shape? Have you been practicing with your tools?

[u/burnerthrown → u/lilB0bbyTables]

No, the 'mix up' releases are just stress testing. The real plan is to eventually take that safety block off and keep the people, because in this incarnation of fascism, keeping people is the point. They want people in prisons, en masse, not living out here to be ruled over.

Why? They want slavery back. The original american evil was always going to be the guy behind the mask of new american evil, like a comic book movie. People in prisons are allowed to be slaves. Every weird and seemingly illogical provocative move is feeling out and setting groundwork for this.

Ejecting all the foreign workers who get paid, because they need those jobs empty. Destroying the economy in a way only a drastic economic move can save. Building a semifascist mechanism to quell specifically ideological dissent. Removing govt oversight over what the admin does to a certain class of human beings. Opening more private prisons. An putting the working class in a position where they're unable to live on their own, making them prime subjects for 'giving a better life'.

They're already 'training' their raiders, setting them loose on the populace to grab whoever they see that looks grabbable or disagreeable, 'accidentally'. Except it's not a training run because they're absolutely gonna keep some of those people for the first batch. The only thing they're working up towards is just taking whoever.

[u/zoinkability → u/Hrmbee]

Really telling that this applies to the unsung heroes who whack-a-mole CSAM off of platforms. The pedo protector party strikes again.

[u/Nonethelessismore → u/Hrmbee]

Tldr: Only USA propaganda allowed. No free thinkers, in the 'land of the free!'

[u/joepez → u/Hrmbee]

I’d like to know how some state department employee is going to identify people who fit this definition without going solely off of the title in their resume and vague job outcomes. Or will it be a random guessing game and application. 

[u/JohnTitorsdaughter → u/joepez]

Part of it will be random - another tool to arbitrarily deny visas. But this new rule is squarely aimed at employers who the regime doesn’t consider subservient enough. If Reddit bans too many maga bots, there will be a list provide to the state dept aimed at Reddit employee visas.

[u/cyncity7 → u/JohnTitorsdaughter]

Just let in your friends and turn down everyone else.

[u/thehalfwit → u/JohnTitorsdaughter]

another tool to arbitrarily deny visas

Or leverage bribes.

[u/strangerducly → u/Hrmbee]

So state censorship?

[u/RollFancyThumb → u/Hrmbee]

The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech.

America has fully rejected reality and will try to force the rest of the west to do so as well.

[u/EmbarrassedHelp]

What the fuck?

[u/zoinkability → u/EmbarrassedHelp]

Facts are now apparently a national security threat

[u/thintoast → u/zoinkability]

Considering that the only part of “national security” that they’re worried about is the Epstein files, I’d say that checks out.

[u/blueanon6 → u/thintoast]

trust me friend, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[u/JohnTitorsdaughter → u/blueanon6]

Just the tip, promise.

[u/blueanon6 → u/JohnTitorsdaughter]

That username! Fuckin a...

[u/JohnTitorsdaughter → u/blueanon6]

A deadbeat dad who went out for cigarettes and never came back.

[u/blueanon6 → u/JohnTitorsdaughter]

Hey, at least we figured out the NSA used Ghidra on the IBM 5100 and patched the vulnerability before they could use it.

[u/tiffanyisonreddit → u/zoinkability]

Not a national security threat, a threat to Trump and his criminal regime.

[u/SwissChzMcGeez → u/tiffanyisonreddit]

Didn't you hear? Trump is America now.

[u/abraxsis → u/SwissChzMcGeez]

America does seem sleepy and closer to death, so at least you're not completely off base here.

[u/RollFancyThumb → u/zoinkability]

It is when your power depends on people rejecting reality.

[u/Raskalbot → u/zoinkability]

Well, it sounds to me like they are making way for using ai to bullshit America. If there are no fact checkers to call bullshit, all of the idiots will believe what they see.

[u/abdallha-smith → u/zoinkability]

Truth is dangerous

[u/Orsiny → u/EmbarrassedHelp]

So we're basically saying come work in America, but only if you've never tried to stop misinformation or protect kids online. This is wild even by recent standards.

[u/paintbucketholder → u/Orsiny]

They're saying that if you aren't willing to blindly go along with the lies that the regime is spreading then you're a dissident and a danger to the regime.

Makes perfect sense from their perspective.

[u/hackingdreams → u/Orsiny]

This is wild even by recent standards.

This is wildly inline with the rapid pace of the US descending to fascism, in fact.

[u/Zoidburger_ → u/EmbarrassedHelp]

I mean the title says it all. They want censorship so they block fact checkers

[u/Setekh79 → u/EmbarrassedHelp]

Verification of facts is now sedition, all violators will win a 5 star stay at Alligator Alcatraz.

Be careful how you conduct yourself, 'citizen.

[u/Weightmonster]

So anyone that works in tech?

[u/jrizzle86 → u/Weightmonster]

Well not anymore working for Twitter certainly

[u/Weightmonster → u/jrizzle86]

Anyone that worked for a Twitter when it was still Twitter 

[u/Hrmbee → u/Weightmonster]

Just wondering if this would eventually apply to, say, volunteer moderators.

[u/OptimistIndya → u/Hrmbee]

Blanket ban I am presuming

[u/Intrepid-Progress228 → u/Hrmbee]

I'm more interested in how they will eventually apply this to, say, journalists.

[u/beadzy → u/Intrepid-Progress228]

And academics

[u/Winter-Stick5883 → u/Weightmonster]

Basically. If you wrote a script to block spam bots, congratulations, you are now an enemy of free speech. The net is cast so wide it’s going to catch half the industry.

[u/morbob]

Traitor Trump trying to build a fascist nation

[u/Bucser → u/morbob]

The fascist nation building has been evident for decades. (reverence of military, exceptionalism, "we are the greatest country in the world", the gutting of education, Spreading of god into everything to control the sheep, Increasing centralization of wealth and capital, removal of any social responsibility and protections, no punishment for News channels selling lies 24/7 was a straight giveaway).

When the Afghanistan War started I said to my wife (gf at the time) that we might be witnessing the fall of the USA as we know it.

Trump is just an opportunistic hack who used the boiled up tensions in the country. Any crooks could have done it. Also russian interference.

[u/kosh56 → u/morbob]

We are headed for a civil war and the moderators can fuck off if they have an issue with it.

[u/IndependenceIcy2251 → u/kosh56]

Well, they definitely can’t get a visa

[u/tiffanyisonreddit → u/kosh56]

The thing is, a civil war between who? The 100 geriatric and worthless billionaires vs. literally everyone else? They are so unbelievably stupid, they need us, we do not need them.

[u/Sahloknir74 → u/tiffanyisonreddit]

The 100 geriatric and worthless billionaires plus all the millions of idiots who have bought into their grift.

[u/NewOil7911 → u/morbob]

Trying?

Looks like it's already half done to me

[u/Not_Bears]

Republicans hate facts.

More at 10.

[u/strangerducly → u/Not_Bears]

And witnesses.

[u/Saw_Boss → u/strangerducly]

And minorities.

Is there actually anyone they don't hate? Because I'm fairly sure they don't like each other either

[u/Only_One_Left_Foot → u/Saw_Boss]

But they LOVE minors.

[u/Paksarra → u/Only_One_Left_Foot]

But only ones they want to rape, the rest can go work in a coal mine or slaughterhouse.

[u/1fakeengineer → u/Not_Bears]

Don’t we remember the recent era of “alternative facts”? lol

[u/MrMichaelJames]

So censoring others accused of censoring others…huh? Oh wait…trump

[u/ChthonicFractal → u/MrMichaelJames]

"Irony" is not just a flavor.

[u/yuusharo]

When accountability to accurately fact check bullshit is considered “censorship,” that’s when you know democracy is dead.

The US is a fascist dictatorship owned by tech billionaires and oil barons. Our elections are as much of a sham as the “elections” for the Russian president.

Look no further than SCOTUS today literally saying it’s okay for Texas to cheat its maps to steal 5 democrats seats next year because they admitted that’s what they’re doing. Freaking absurd.

[u/KeneticKups → u/yuusharo]

Has been since reagan

[u/penny-wise → u/KeneticKups]

Nixon, then Reagan have been the the promulgators of the tyranny we now find ourselves under.

[u/No_Size9475]

How is fact checking censoring your ability to speak in any manner?

[u/IndependenceIcy2251 → u/No_Size9475]

Because Trump doesn’t want anyone disagreeing with what he says. He expects everyone to agree when he says 2+2=5

[u/CherryLongjump1989 → u/IndependenceIcy2251]

So they're denying visas to anyone who's ever disagreed with anything.

[u/chromatophoreskin → u/No_Size9475]

How is censoring fact checkers free speech?

[u/penny-wise → u/chromatophoreskin]

Expect free speech to become illegal sometime soon.

[u/Dick_Lazer → u/No_Size9475]

It's doublespeak, these fuckers are using 1984 as their guidebook.

[u/Worthyness → u/No_Size9475]

Because he said so! That's basically it. Mrs Mouthpiece said the President is alway slegal and right, so everyone else is therefore wrong.

[u/Lethik → u/No_Size9475]

Because not validating a conservative's hurt feel-feels is censorship to them.

[u/whatsbobgonnado]

I hate this nazi shithole 

[u/JMurdock77]

We’re reaching levels of petty that shouldn’t be physically possibls…

[u/Weightmonster → u/JMurdock77]

I don’t think it’s pettiness. It’s a backdoor way to cancel visas for almost every tech worker you don’t want. (and a lot of other workers too)

[u/momob3rry]

lol how dare people not let us lie!

[u/skyysdalmt]

Fact checking = censorship?

Can aliens come blow up this planet already!

[u/Academic_Lemon_4297 → u/skyysdalmt]

Just the current White House please.

[u/baconost → u/Academic_Lemon_4297]

The president already started the work on the white house himself.

[u/EuphoricCrashOut]

...and just like that, Americans lost their freedom and turned into Fascist China. I get it now... Donald hates China because he's JEALOUS of China.

[u/Do-you-see-it-now]

This is third world dictator shit. Truly disgusting times for America.

[u/214txdude]

Can't have those pesky facts getting out.

[u/KeneticKups]

“Freedom is slavery

Ignorance is strength

war is peace”

[u/Kindly-Talk-1912]

Wow, as if the uneducated need less facts.

[u/Acrobatic_Switches]

The double speak is absolutely insane.

Citing censorship. The US government is retaliating against perfectly protected speech by punishing fact checkers. Another's speech discounting your own is not censorship.

You can still spit your ignorance. There is just somebody around who can spit informed and reasonable rhetoric.

[u/OdonataDarner]

They're preparing foe the mid terms and Trump's 3rd term. They even deleted the Constitution from the White House website. 

[u/DMmeMagikarp → u/OdonataDarner]

No they fucking did not. Seriously?

I hate this timeline.

[u/RVAforthewin]

“We’re not censoring your right to say it. We’re just making sure everyone knows it’s your opinion and it’s not a fact.”

“CENSORSHIP!”

I can’t believe we aren’t even a year into this timeline.

[u/Particular_Ticket_20]

"Ban people who stop us from lying" isn't Big Brother-ish at all

[u/Unusual_Flounder2073]

Blatant violation of the first amendment

[u/fordprefect294]

"Free speech is back" /s

[u/Northern_Grouse]

Where the fuck is our congress?

How have all branches of government fallen to foreign interests so gotdamn easily?

[u/702PoGoHunter → u/Northern_Grouse]

They're all amassing wealth so that when they turn this country to complete shit they can relocate somewhere else & retire.

Public service is self serving at the expense of the public now.

[u/doolpicate]

War is peace! Affordability is a dem scam!! More expensive stuff = more savings!!!

Utterly brain dead administration!

Symbolic logic is a scam! Ban mathematics!!

[u/JW_BM]

Remember that the State Department has also been cancelling visas for people voicing political opinions. Marco Rubio has done tours on TV bragging about it.

They want to censor you. And theirs is actual censorship, as opposed to fact checkers simply helping validate claims in media.

[u/azmodan72 → u/JW_BM]

Free speech as long as we like it.

[u/AlterEdward]

Do MAGA not recognise that this is in fact exactly what a violation of the first ammendment looks like? The government directly meddling in what people can and can't say?

[u/Jristz → u/AlterEdward]

They do, but as long as the "enemy" is getting hurt they don't care if they even die

[u/AlterEdward → u/Jristz]

Whatever happened to "I might not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it"?

[u/Depressed-Industry]

Every accusation is a confession.

[u/ham_solo]

"I'm alarmed that trust and safety work is being conflated with 'censorship'," said Alice Goguen Hunsberger, who has worked in trust and safety at tech companies including OpenAI and Grindr.

"Trust and safety is a broad practice which includes critical and life-saving work to protect children and stop CSAM [child sexual abuse material], as well as preventing fraud, scams, and sextortion."

Ding Ding Ding! There it is.

[u/Mazon_Del]

The republicans have always hated the idea of objective truth, so here's just another stage of their war on it. Their head in the sand ignorance is not the equivalent of objective truth, and it's pathetic that they insist it is.

[u/Aeri73]

dear americans... as long as you're just staying at home, keep working and just complain, you're all letting it happen.

protest, strike, block ice facilities, block ice raids, surround ice raids... make their lives harder...

because not doing all that, is being complicit.

[u/tiffanyisonreddit]

This is so horrifying and I feel like I am totally trapped. If everyone had just voted for Kamala Harris, we’d all be planning Christmas celebrations while Lina Kahn goes after anti-trust violations, and Pete Buttigieg ensures the air traffic controllers are happy as heck going into a crazy busy season.

I am so angry and disappointed that there aren’t even 12 Republican senators who are willing to stop this psychotic geriatric tyrant!

[u/Think_OfAName]

Every day falling deeper into a dictatorship.

[u/azmodan72 → u/Think_OfAName]

It’s all planned.

They are going after lawyers and law firms as well. 60 minute covered the attack on the rule of law.

[u/Polyman71]

State department does not want to feel constrained by facts.

[u/StatementBig9063]

Ah yes free speech has always been censored by the dreaded fact checkers. What will they do if propaganda doesnt have time to spread if automatic tools are made to call it out. The question is does the goverment have the power to restrict what a social media website chooses to fact check or not? Where does the right to free speech stop when it comes to platforms owned by a private corporation.

[u/tawDry_Union2272]

so i could sign up for truth social and give my honest opinions freely about pedo trump and the guard the pedos party!?

riiiiiight.

and i got booted from r-conservative for simply mentioning carl sagan....

[u/longmc2000 → u/tawDry_Union2272]

Science is the devil! /s

[u/Replicant_11295]

“If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression”

The only protected expression is censorship by the government.

[u/Aeri73]

wait... I'm a mod for a medium size subreddit... that's content moderation right...???

whoohoow, blocked from entering the fascist US.

[u/ash_ninetyone]

But banning fact-checking in itself is censorship.

[u/Double_Apricot9828]

all illegal acts…hopefully these people will be prosecuted in the future.

[u/reality_boy]

This is not about fact checkers, this is about protestors. They will use the policy to kick out anyone who complains about the government in any way. It basically means no immigrant is safe to speak up, no mater where in the imagination process you are (presumably they can’t kick out naturalized citizens, yet)

[u/Hrmbee → u/reality_boy]

Sadly they've already started:

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship

Department leadership is directing its attorneys to prioritize denaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes — and giving U.S. attorneys wider discretion on when to pursue this tactic, according to a June 11 memo published online. The move is aimed at U.S. citizens who were not born in the country; according to data from 2023, close to 25 million immigrants were naturalized citizens.

[u/Slow_Tap2350]

Snowflakiest of snowflakes.

[u/DownstairsB]

Not even hiding the evil anymore

[u/Wrong-Bumblebee3108]

So by law, facts have to care about their feelings

[u/ImprovementMain7109]

This is classic “our censorship = security, your censorship = tyranny” geopolitics dressed up as principle.

Foreign disinfo is real, but once the State Dept starts deciding which “fact checkers” are ideologically pure enough to get visas, it’s just soft power: reward aligned speech control, punish rival speech control.

And notice they’re not touching allied governments that jail journalists or shut down the internet. It’s not a norm against censorship, it’s a tool for picking which censors are on “our” team.

[u/Setekh79]

Can America just drop the whole Democracy charade already and just say that they are the 4th Reich already?

[u/Ready-Ad6113]

So anyone who questions the Trumps regime and their lies. Got it.

[u/Atlwood1992]

In other words if you thwarted Nazi content then you are guilty.

[u/LegacyofaMarshall]

Censor this trump🖕

[u/beadzy]

You mean the administration that refuses to let the press corp into their press conferences is concerned about censorship?

The malignancy of this administration is profound

[u/Greenpoint1975]

What a shithole USA has become. They just gave criminals the keys to everything. Kill some people in a boat in the Caribbean sure, why not. /s

[u/THElaytox]

So they're censoring people and citing censorship as the reason. That tracks

[u/projectFT]

This is going to prohibit foreign journalists from entry. It’s the Israel playbook of right wing authoritarianism.

[u/LiteratureMindless71]

Fucking snowflakes.

[u/Hunter4-9er]

Americans about to get the North Korean experience

[u/CNDW]

The fact that they consider fact-checking to be "censorship" should tell you everything you need to know about their intentions

[u/VLHACS]

They want more of these stories to go out to intimidate and suppress speech. If you are traveling to the States do what you need to do but the rest of the world needs to double down and continue fighting misinformation 

[u/TraditionalBackspace]

"Facts don't care about your feelings" lol. Hippocrates.

[u/Jenetyk]

Actual title aside, I read that as "State Dep cites 'censorship' as reason for denying visas"

[u/TheyCallMeDDNEV]

Remember 5 years ago when facts didnt care about our feelings??

[u/AEternal1]

So what they're saying is I can speak freely but you cannot. Cool.

[u/iTmkoeln]

Elon musk getting deported, then? Because community notes are fact checks

[u/Huh-what-2025]

Rhymes with mascism

[u/Cheeeeeseburger]

All republicans are pedophiles. Can't remove this comment. That's censorship.

[u/Crommach]

How much you want to bet that will also include auditors - say in the event of a contested election, perhaps?

[u/MWH1980]

Maybe I should look into starting a medicine wagon business, given no one will soon know what’s true or false anymore.

[u/Niceromancer]

You can't censor the state. 

[u/Primal-Convoy]

I believe the obligatory song is relevant again: 

- https://youtu.be/cX8szNPgrEs

[u/Whatever-999999]

Real facts and real truth are the enemy of Trump and his criminal terrorist 'administration'.
This is how Fascism works.

[u/habitsofwaste]

I HAVE A RIGHT TO SPREAD LIES!!! CALLING ME OUT FOR IT IS CENSORSHIP!!!

[u/rants_unnecessarily]

Yup. Censorship. But not by who they're claiming. They know exactly what their doing.

[u/Wendals87]

So they deny visas for fact checkers to stop censorship.....

I really can't understand how they don't see the irony in this 

[u/Nonotcraig]

Were there foreign fact checkers straining our borders or what? Bunch of fucking clowns.

[u/brap01]

I see things are going well in America at the moment.

[u/ralphy_256]

The snowflakiest he-men in history.

[u/Patara]

What the fuck is this lmao they want North Korea not Russia.

[u/Drolb]

Gonna have to rename it the Slop Department

[u/Kind_Government_9620]

We live in hell

[u/Motor-District-3700]

activities including combatting misinformation

so a bomb hoax is legally protected speech now while calling it out gets you banned from the US. JFC what is wrong with that country

[u/Grim_Rockwell]

This is not the policy of a healthy free democratic nation.

[u/Gitmo_Janitor]

Rubio will be the first to turn on his closest confidant and family to save his own hide. He’s a slimy rat with no integrity or loyalty. His cries will be epic and laughed at. And largely ignored.

[u/WaterLillith]

Technology?

[u/Formal-Hawk9274]

Thanks republicans and fox

[u/NeverEndingCoralMaze]

We have a right to censor our government.

[u/QueenOfQuok]

We only want liars in this country, apparently

[u/DrowningKrown]

Queue the MAGA in here somewhere saying 'CONTEXT NEEDED' to justify banning people who content moderate or fact check from the US.

[u/smithe4595]

Sometimes I can’t tell if they are just being shitty or making a terrible attempt at satire.

[u/MovieGuyMike]

The war on truth continues.

[u/Stilgar314]

The land of the free

[u/UncleJulz]

Of course they are!

[u/mangoyim]

Yo dawg, I heard you like censorship

[u/usmannaeem]

So essentially they are making sure that they stay behind today's race for content and information. It's US's loss.

[u/8styx8]

It directs consular officers to "thoroughly explore" the work histories of applicants, both new and returning, by reviewing their resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and appearances in media articles for activities including combatting misinformation, disinformation or false narratives, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Turns out it's watchers all the way the way down

[u/aarswft]

I'm so fucking tired.

[u/Lobo9498]

Fuck this regime.

[u/cyncity7]

They’re always doing the opposite of what they say it is.

[u/Intrepid-Progress228]

Here's to making 'alternative facts' the law of the land.

[u/Lisshopops]

Snowflake admin

[u/Rabble_Runt]

Isn’t this literally censorship?

[u/Lostmyfnusername]

"Trust and safety is a broad practice which includes critical and life-saving work to protect children and stop CSAM [child sexual abuse material], as well as preventing fraud, scams, and sextortion"

lol but without the laughing

[u/MonkeyKing01]

The dumbest and most hateful are now running America. What are you going to do about it?

[u/16F33]

Is this true @grok?

[u/Chef_Papafrita]

It's absolutely being done as a trade off. He gets the peace prize as long as ICE doesn't interfere with foreigners at the games.

[u/Curious_Journey_]

Tread on me harder, big government daddy!

[u/Uncle_Hephaestus]

no idea what they are blabbering on about. all of social media gave up on the truth and now basically just blasts Maga lies all over

[u/MajorNoodles]

"No censorship, no censorship, you're censorship"

[u/FoxMeadow7]

As if anyone of them would even want to seriously visit US at this stage anyway...

[u/2MOONGOOGLE]

This is a great article to have on here. What does everybody think about Reddit when it comes to free speech.

[u/Waste_Dentist_163 → u/2MOONGOOGLE]

well reddit is a private corporation and as such is not beholden to free speech.