Federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from detaining or deporting

Imran Ahmed.

He's a British-born researcher who focuses on countering online hate and misinformation,

but the Trump administration accuses him of trying to censor viewpoints that he doesn't

agree with.

Ahmed leaves a group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate,

and he is one of five European nationals,

recently barred entry to the U.S. by the State Department.

Imran Ahmed is in the U.S., and he joins us now.

Thank you so much for being here.

As I mentioned, the U.S. government, specifically Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

accuses you of trying to censor social media companies and to pressure them into taking

viewpoints that you find objectionable off their sites. Rubio called you and these other individuals

foreign censors. What do you make of that accusation?

Well, thank you.

I mean, it's terribly confusing.

The work that the center does,

looking into things as diverse

as the spread of online hatred against Jews,

anti-Semitism on social media platforms,

which we worked on with the first Trump administration in 2020.

And we've continued to work on a bipartisan basis globally,

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