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“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”, the official said. “The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country.”

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If you just have some random handle that isn’t your name. How are they gonna trace that to you?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 hours ago

Officer: please wait on the side

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 hours ago

opens fedi

presents timeline filled with non-binary catgirls meowing at each other

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 hours ago

Welp, looks like I won't be allowed into America. Oh no. How unfortunate.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 hours ago

My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Wasn't this always the case? I remember flying into the US during the Biden era as a tourist and had to declare my social media accounts.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

Wait really? 😂

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 hours ago

Yes I recalled that too but I don’t recall the public aspect to be turned on.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 45 points 8 hours ago

"You better not have said anything mean on there that hurts Donald's feefees."

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 65 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

I see many of these students straight up deleting their profiles.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 49 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Alternatively, they'll have a "public facing" social media, and a real one.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 hours ago

yeah, I can see not having a social media profile at all being treated as tantamount to sedition before too long

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 hours ago

I’m so happy that I was able to skip all that stuff.

I stoped using my mainstream social media around the years ago.

I kept the profiles, and I think it is good as I can just share them if I’m ever required to.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

Anyone applying to colleges probably has one already.

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 hours ago

Which is probably a net positive on their lives. The less social media the better.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 8 hours ago

I will imagine that will be seen as suspicious. Interesting businesss to sell clean aged social media account for US only vetting..

Me: I don’t have a social media account Officer: Sure buddy, wait on a side until you do.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Careful curation

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 29 points 7 hours ago

The subtext here: “if you post anti-Israel stuff, you can kiss your chances goodbye!”

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 22 points 8 hours ago

Looks like the US is not the country of choice anymore. Setting a profile to public means gets to see all those things you that may be embarrassing, career limiting, life threatening etc.