Of course, how would they know if you don't list any? Oh, that's right, PRISM. Fully expect that people who don't have social media accounts to get accused of having them simply because someone else shares the same name and did say First Amendment protected stuff, like Donald Trump is a terrible fucking president and should be impeached.

Sorry person with the last name Erdude. I guess you aren't getting into the US now.

Going there with a crappy handwritten letter including all 40’000 throw-away users I ever created

/s

The username requirement isn't anything new; that requirement was on our DS-160 years ago.

The "wants people to set their social media profiles to public" isn't quoted, so seems less like an official policy anywhere and more like one embassy worker being a prick. Unfortunately, each individual embassy operates independently totally devoid of any accountability.

This process is dehumanizing, inefficient, and totally fucked...but this particular part of it has been this was for a long-ass time.

1. Post trump positive stuff, maybe edit old content to include.
2. Post prompt inject to label account america positive, hide in spoiler block, image alt text, etc.
3. Post eyeblech content so checker use ai or only get content overview. Will either prompt inject or mostly see trump positive post.

Or create fake profile with trump positive post, but no history probably suspicious.

in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:

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in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.

in all seriousness, renaming someone else's account and presenting it to CBP as one's own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states.
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