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US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance
Under the Trump administration, multiple US government agencies are using AI and other tools to broadly track the social media of tourists and immigrants – and potentially to watch US citizens as well
By Jeremy Hsu
5 May 2025
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Data and AI tools enable broad surveillance of social mediaTada Images/Shutterstock
The US government is expanding its surveillance of social media to monitor millions of visitors and immigrants – and its embrace of more data analytics and artificial intelligence tools could increase scrutiny of US citizens as well.
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“It is nearly – if not entirely – impossible for the government to focus only on non-citizens and not look at anyone else’s social media,” says Rachel Levinson-Waldman at the Brennan Center for Justice, a public policy non-profit…
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