J. Nathan Matias 🦣Since May 2025, the US State Department has publicized a visa restriction policy that targets and threatens deportation toward people who study and report on online harms.
Yesterday, @knightcolumbia & @protctdemocracy filed a lawsuit challenging this censorship policy on behalf of @transparenttech, whose members have been harmed by this policy.
“At a time when AI is rapidly changing our lives and economy and people are already worried about their freedom and safety online, we need independent researchers more than ever. This policy is meant to censor researchers into silence and keep the public in the dark, and that’s exactly what it’s doing” -- Brandi Geurkink, ED of CITR.
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