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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
(www.thejournal.ie)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.
If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.
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look at the news, airhead. They detain tourists and journalists for far less nowadays. Even fucking Senators. What else needs to happen for you to wake up?
Who was denied entry for not having social media?
Make a fake one that posts like... idk post random tech stuff that you could be reasonably interested in. Make nothing critical of authority. As a decoy profile.
Then you can rant about big brother on an anonymous Lemmy Account over TOR.
and then they check their palantir database and see your lying and throw you in a south american gulag
But a super recent account would be suspicious
You have to do this over a couple years
I can see a black market for decade old "clean" social media accounts to bypass the system lmao
Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.