Gaby Del Valle

The new State Department program, called “Catch and Revoke,” will use AI to review the social media accounts of tens of thousands of students who are in the US on visas, Axios reports. State Department sources tell Axios that officials plan on combing through internal databases to see if any international students were arrested in pro-Palestine demonstrations since October 2023 — and that the department is working with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure a “whole of government and whole of authority approach.”

Big brands are advertising on X again, and some Senate Democrats are worried their return to the platform is due to coercion. In a letter addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, five Democratic Senators asked the DOJ to investigate whether Musk is using his influence to retaliate against companies that refuse to do business with his platform.

The ACLU sued the Trump administration on behalf of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG National earlier this month. The suit, filed in Maryland federal court, argued that Trump’s executive order withholding funding from groups that “promote gender ideology” or provide trans people under 19 with gender-affirming care was unconstitutional since Congress had already appropriated the money.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly updated the timestamps on dozens of old press releases touting arrests — some of which happened over a decade ago. The result? The releases ranked high on Google Search, creating the impression that the agency had arrested more people than it actually has.