No US visa for fact checkers, content moderators because 'Trump's social media accounts were once locked'

The Donald Trump administration has moved to deny visas to fact-checkers, content moderators who have engaged in "censoring the free speech of US citizens". The State Department has sent a memo to overseas missions this week directing consular officials to deny visas to any applicant "responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the US", NPR and Reuters reported. A State Department spokesperson told NPR that it was a leaked document but did not deny its authenticity. "The Administration has made clear that it defends Americans' freedom of expression against foreigners who wish to censor them. We do not support aliens coming to the United States to work as censors muzzling Americans," the spokesperson said. The spokesperson empha