"Minutes later, her cell phone began to receive messages from family members and colleagues. The U.S. Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers had cited her in a message on X as one of the five foreigners that the U.S. has banned from entering the country. She leads Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a U.K.-based organization that monitors websites for hate speech' and disinformation'."
"It was a shock. It's never nice to be singled out like that, especially hours before Christmas Eve, when all you want to do is wrap presents and peel vegetables, Melford told EL PAIS via email. On December 24, she received an email from the ESTA program, the system that manages U.S. visas. Her trip had not been authorized. They didn't give me any explanation, nor have they at any point, she says."
"Former European Commissioner for Internal Markets, Thierry Breton, the best known of the five European citizens who were banned from the United States, has turned to the courts. In his case, he was accused of being a mastermind of the Digital Services Act [DSA], the European Union regulation designed to oversee large tech companies, and which demands of them transparency and that they take responsibility for the content circulated on their platforms."
Clare Melford, head of the Global Disinformation Index, had her U.S. visa status changed from approved to pending after being publicly named by Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers as one of five foreigners banned from entry. The State Department accused the NGO of using taxpayer funds to promote censorship and blacklist American speech and press. Melford received an ESTA denial without explanation and has not decided on legal action. Thierry Breton, another banned individual, has pursued court action after being accused of masterminding the EU’s Digital Services Act, which requires platform transparency and responsibility for content.
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