New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

I guess students will have to delete all social media before applying?

Until an empty account is seen as a red flag. The thing is, they do not need a reason to reject visa applications. This will just provide more pretexts and more power trips for border control agents and embassy bureaucrats.

Ohh thats a whole new dystopian formula! We all thought instagram was optional but soon it Will be required to show off your beach body. While drinking the correct drink. Enhance with the right ai and catefully edit out your chinese Mexican and african friends.

The gaming quality on yt and twitch can be measured with ai to check if you are not pretending. The immigration interview full of questions about grand theft auto.

HN born as a place for founders to pretend to be civilized and knowledgable can extend to cover everyone. I mean, I wouldnt give a visum to the guy writing this comment.

Simple, just use AI tools to generate fake profiles that seem normal enough to pass inspection by some random State Department employee.

And that's kind of the point: have social media mostly filled with apolitical or at least non controversial content.

As other pointed out, border control is already an area where an agent can stop basically anyone without any provable justification. More that this specific rule, the whole social climate needs to change to ever get back to a balanced situation.

This is why I made an unused Facebook account filled with normal stuff before applying to college, back when that was the popular thing.

How about no account at all? Don't forget that the Amish exist in the US.

The amish dont require visa in the US...at least atm. But if they end up needing a visa, which would get renamed to social credit score...

Don't blur your friend's faces, that's suspicious. But if you leave the in their profiles will be matched up and checked too. You think the House Un-American Activities Committee was bad? The future will be 1000x more intense.

2 accounts. 1 fake public, 1 private real.

Not having social media is in itself a listed reason for visa denial because they consider it suspicious.