The U.S. now uses AI to monitor social media, requiring travelers to report accounts at immigration for review.

Question

The United States has recently implemented AI technology to monitor social media, requiring travelers to provide their social network accounts at immigration, where even past messages may be inspected.

Comments

One thing about this post is that it uses a source that may or may not be credible for the topic it brings to light. The source being a social media, along with no translations provided, the information cannot be proven to provide actual information about Homeland Security using AI to screen immigrants and refugees prior to entering the U.S. My critic would be to use a source that provides the same information from the social media post, but comes from a news source backed by credible sources, i.e. Vice.

Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dhs-uses-ai-tool-babel-x-babel-street-social-media-citizens-refugees/
https://iapp.org/news/b/us-cbp-found-to-use-ai-tool-to-screen-travelers-refugees-citizens

Answer 1

While this claim is true the source this person uses to proove their claim is not a viaable recource to help support their claim.  They use a social media post not in english which it is well known that social media had never been the most accurate source of information.  When reserching this claim I found another source that prooves this claim using mutiple first person sources and has a document straight from homland security about new AI techonology they are using to help them with travlers and immigrants .  You can tell this is more reliable then the social media post they are using and provides a much stronger support system for their claim then a short two sentance post. 

Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dhs-uses-ai-tool-babel-x-babel-street-social-media-citizens-refugees/

Answer 2

The source used for this claim is not reliable, as it is a post on a social media site that anybody could upload to. However, I did further research and found a few other more credible sources regarding this claim and found it to be true. Vice.com states “Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using an invasive, AI-powered monitoring tool to screen travelers, including U.S. citizens, refugees, and people seeking asylum..”  and links to an official document from Homeland Security regarding this case. I also found a source from the Homeland Security website which lists AI use cases regarding immigration services.

https://www.dhs.gov/ai/use-case-inventory/uscis

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dhs-uses-ai-tool-babel-x-babel-street-social-media-citizens-refugees/

Comments

I like this answer and the fact that you disputed the credibility of the social media post. To make this answer more compelling you could explain why the sources you found are credible and you could add a concluding sentence that reminds readers of what you are trying to say (like "therefore, I believe there is evidence that the claim is true"). Otherwise I think this is a great response!