Dr Kate Devlin told her invitation had been withdrawn owing to past comments on social media
A UK academic has said she was blocked from giving a talk to a government department because she had previously criticised government policies.
Dr Kate Devlin, a reader in artificial intelligence and society at King’s College London, said she was due to give a talk to a civil service network within a government department on Monday relating to women in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem).