Here’s why you can’t shake those unhinged political texts

“Its James Talarico. Can you please please please please pretty pretty please rush in even just $1?” “Who’s working to elect James Talarico? Marxists.” “Wow! Wow! Wow! Mark Kelly just made a HUGE announcement!” “We asked Ben Verlander, MLB analyst and former Tigers prospect, to record a quick video about the election this Tuesday, November 3rd.” “See which of your friends or family members have voted in the past and remind them to vote this year.” If any of these messages sound familiar, it’s likely because they’re part of the massive stream of text messages flooding your phone leading up to the US midterm elections on Tuesday. The scal … Read the full story at The Verge.

“Its James Talarico. Can you please please please please pretty pretty please rush in even just $1?” “Who’s working to elect James Talarico? Marxists.” “Wow! Wow! Wow! Mark Kelly just made a HUGE announcement!” “We asked Ben Verlander, MLB analyst and former Tigers prospect, to record a quick video about the election this Tuesday, November 3rd.” “See which of your friends or family members have voted in the past and remind them to vote this year.” If any of these messages sound familiar, it’s likely because they’re part of the massive stream of text messages flooding your phone leading up to the US midterm elections on Tuesday.

The scale of the issue is not entirely clear, but call-blocking company Robokiller found that 15 billion political texts were sent in 2022, thanks in part to a Supreme Court decision the year prior that made it easier