Imran Ahmed, CEO of Center for Countering Digital Hate, a British citizen, poses for a portrait January 2, 2026, in Washington, DC. British tech campaigner Imran Ahmed on Friday decried a US visa ban as "punishment" for his organization's work combating disinformation and holding major online platforms accountable, telling AFP that Washington's actions amounted to "tyrannical behavior." Ahmed, a US permanent resident, heads the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit watchdog that researches the harmful effects of online disinformation. He was among five European figures whom the State Department recently said would be denied visas. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by US artificial intelligence company xAI, in Toulouse, southern France, on January 15, 2025. The Paris prosecutor's office said on January 2, 2026, it has expanded its investigation into the operation of Elon Musk's platform X to include "negationist remarks" published by its artificial intelligence tool Grok. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) This photograph shows the CAC 40 amongst stock tickers displayed at the headquarters of the Pan-European stock exchange Euronext in La Defense district, near Paris on April 27, 2018. The Paris Stock Exchange ended its first session of the year with a slight increase on January 2, 2026, benefiting from strong investor enthusiasm for technology stocks. (Photo by ERIC PIERMONT / AFP via Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2025 Scientists perform a necropsy on the 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, 2025.. The carcass, which was dug up past summer near the Batagaika research station in the permafrost-covered region of Yakutia, weighs 180 kilograms (397 pounds) and is 120 centimetres (four feet) tall and 200 centimetres long. Yana's "geological age", meaning the period when she lived, was first estimated at 50,000 years, but later updated to "more than 130,000 years" following analysis of the permafrost layer where she was found, said Maxim Cheprasov, director of The Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) / AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2025

TOPSHOT - AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2025 Ukrainian servicemen of the 59th brigade mobile air defence unit fire a Soviet made ZU-23 anti-aircraft twin autocannon towards a Russian drone from a sunflower field, during an air attack near Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region on July 19, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.. Russia's deadly Geran drones, based on the Iranian technology, have been wreaking havoc on Ukraine since the beginning of the war three years ago. But since May 2025, they became more, with hundreds of drones now harassing cities and killing civilians almost daily. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP via Getty Images) / AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2025

(FILES) European commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton attends the final campaign rally of France's group Renew (Renaissance), Modem and Horizons party's leading European Parliament election candidate and MEP Valerie Hayer, in Aubervilliers, northeastern suburbs of Paris, on June 1, 2024, ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections. France's President and the French political class in generalexcept for certain voices within the RNon December 24, 2025, condemned the Trump administration's decision to ban former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other European figures from entering the country because of their efforts to regulate digital platforms, seeing it as an attack on European sovereignty. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) European Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, speaks during a news conference at the European Union office in San Francisco, California, on June 22, 2023. France's President and the French political class in generalexcept for certain voices within the RNon December 24, 2025, condemned the Trump administration's decision to ban former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other European figures from entering the country because of their efforts to regulate digital platforms, seeing it as an attack on European sovereignty. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton delivers a speech during the congress of the centrist MoDem party in Blois, on March 23, 2024. France's President and the French political class in generalexcept for certain voices within the RNon December 24, 2025, condemned the Trump administration's decision to ban former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other European figures from entering the country because of their efforts to regulate digital platforms, seeing it as an attack on European sovereignty. (Photo by Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP via Getty Images)