The Trump Administration’s Increased Use of Social Media Surveillance

A post summarizes a Brookings report and describes the Trump administration’s expanded social media surveillance policies, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s zero-tolerance “Catch and Revoke” strategy that uses AI to monitor foreign nationals’ public speech and revoke visas (with at least 300 reportedly revoked) and a new requirement for student visa applicants to make social media accounts public to identify hostile attitudes, reflecting stricter vetting practices.