Behind The US Government’s Algorithm That Denied Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman A Visa To Enter

Two daysbefore Weizman, a professor at London’s Goldsmiths College, was due tofly to the US from Britain, he received an email from the US Embassytelling him that the visa waiver on his British passport had beenrevoked. When he went to the embassy in London last week, an officialwould only tell him that an algorithm had identified a related “securitythreat. Thatassociation could involve any aspect of his work with ForensicArchitecture, which painstakingly pieces together evidence fr