The U.S. State Department is instructing its staff to reject H-1B visa applications from anyone who has worked on fact-checking or content moderation, according to an internal memo sent this week. "If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible" for a visa, the memo says. Here's more from @npr.
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