A human rights investigator has been told he can’t enter the US due to the recommendation of an algorithm. Eyal Weizman, the director of London-based investigative group Forensic Architecture, was first informed by email that his visa waiver had been revoked. No reason was given for the revocation. The next day, he went to apply for a visa at the US Embassy in London, where an officer told him that he couldn’t travel to the country because an algorithm had identified a security threat. “He said he did not know what had triggered the algorithm but suggested that it could be something…
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