A US federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that could deny visas or deport foreign nationals involved in research on online disinformation and hate speech. The ruling came after a technology research coalition challenged the policy, arguing that it violated constitutional free speech protections.
Chief US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the policy likely places an unlawful burden on the speech of non-citizen researchers working in the United States. According to the court, as reported by Reuters, researchers could reasonably believe that their immigration status was at risk simply because of their work on content moderation and online misinformation.
