Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says. Earlier in the day, her friends had teased the teen about her tanned complexion and called her “Mexican,” even though she’s not. When a friend asked what she was planning for Thursday, she wrote: “on Thursday we kill all the Mexico’s.”

What kind of state ramps up this kind of rhetoric, even fetishizes it to the point of installing a president and confessional congressional members who use it, then criminalizes children for repeating what they say, after criminalizing diversity posters in classrooms?