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Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening

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64 points djoldman | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 19:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.275s | source
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jan_Sate ◴[28 Jun 25 10:50 UTC] No.44403737[source]▶
I don't get why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications. If someone's having ill intent, one could easily create a burner account and fill in some random content for the sake of getting thru the visa application. Or they could even just purchase an account somewhere on the internet.

Sad to see what US has become.

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1. dataflow ◴[28 Jun 25 15:08 UTC] No.44405217[source]▶
> If someone's having ill intent, one could easily create a burner account and fill in some random content for the sake of getting thru the visa application.

The timestamps will immediately give it away if you try to pull that though. Not to mention that they could also (if they want) just harvest data on what accounts already exist at what point in time, to detect actions like this. Lots of data brokers have such data already. And they could just do some cursory searches for other accounts you might have too, if you don't deactivate them...