{"id":319791,"date":"2025-12-11T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319791"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:57:43","slug":"foreign-tourists-could-be-required-to-disclose-5-years-of-social-media-histories-under-trump-administration-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319791","title":{"rendered":"Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julia Ainsley and Phil Helsel \u2013 NBC News Dec 10, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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The Trump administration<\/a> plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media<\/a> histories from the last five years to enter the country, according to a notice published Tuesday in the Federal Register.<\/p>\n

The data would be \u201cmandatory\u201d for new entrants to the U.S., regardless of whether they are entering from countries that require visas, according to the notice<\/a> from Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n

Residents of the United Kingdom and Germany are among the countries from which visitors do not require visas to visit the U.S., which, according to the notice, could add an extra hurdle for travelers. British citizens and people of other waived countries currently can complete \u201cElectronic System for Travel Authorizations\u201d in lieu of obtaining visas.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has increased restrictions on people entering the U.S., and President Donald Trump ran a campaign that focused on border and immigration crackdowns.<\/p>\n

he Trump administration<\/a> plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media<\/a> histories from the last five years to enter the country, according to a notice published Tuesday in the Federal Register.<\/p>\n

The data would be \u201cmandatory\u201d for new entrants to the U.S., regardless of whether they are entering from countries that require visas, according to the notice<\/a> from Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n

Residents of the United Kingdom and Germany are among the countries from which visitors do not require visas to visit the U.S., which, according to the notice, could add an extra hurdle for travelers. British citizens and people of other waived countries currently can complete \u201cElectronic System for Travel Authorizations\u201d in lieu of obtaining visas.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has increased restrictions on people entering the U.S., and President Donald Trump ran a campaign that focused on border and immigration crackdowns.<\/p>\n

In June, the State Department announced<\/a> it was requiring people seeking certain types of visas to enter the U.S. to change their social media profiles to public.<\/p>\n

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group, called that move unprecedented<\/a> and said the U.S. restriction was intended to “surveil and suppress foreign students\u2019 social media activity.”<\/p>\n

Last week the State Department announced <\/a>that it would expand an “online presence review” to include H-1B applicants and their dependents.<\/p>\n

Since Trump returned to office in January, the State Department has also sought to revoke visas for people in the U.S. who have protested about the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has also announced plans to clamp down on various forms of legal immigration after an Afghan national was named as the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., last month. The suspect has pleaded not guilty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In effect, this would enable U.S. border control to screen visitors to America politically by scrutinizing their social media histories <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319823,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319791\/revisions\/319823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}