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Trump administration rolls out social media vetting of visa applicants | Ars Technica

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"In all, applicants that the government deems suspicious would be required to disclose (PDF) their previous passport numbers, five years of social media handles, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses."

Trump administration rolls out social media vetting of visa applicants | Ars Technica

How will the US government know that the Lord Tantamount Horseposture who kept posting abuse about the Chancellor of the Exchequer in The Daily Telegraph is actually me? Conversely, how will they know I was joking when I told Watson that I wanted overthrow the US government and replace it with a workers and peasants’ collective? Surely any sane terrorist will maintain a social media account with pictures that will go down well at US immigration?

If they ask to disclose social media handles, 

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