Make Them Stop. How to Curb Incessant Political Text Messages
Posted on AllSides June 25th, 2024
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RACHEL MENDELSON/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ISTOCK (3)
The campaign texts with eye-roll inducing openers like “NOT ASKING FOR $” or “The 600% MATCH won’t last forever” are flooding all of our phones these days.
Jim Laws, a 70-year-old retired anesthetist in West Palm Beach, Fla., received a text in early June with a link to a survey about the state of the nation. The message said the sender wasn’t asking for money.
Laws opened the link and answered the questions, only to end up on a screen that prompted him to send money to process his results....
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