In the thick of Kansas’ contentious debate over abortion rights, the anonymous text messages arriving on the eve of the big referendum this week seemed clear enough. AdvertisementBut text messages are emerging as an increasingly popular means of spreading disinformation about voting and elections. “There’s been an explosion of political text messages since 2020 and since then the political messages have stuck around,” said RoboKiller’s vice president, Giulia Porter. The same year, someone used text messages to spread false rumors of a national COVID-19 lockdown. The texts sent in Kansas used a messaging platform made by Twilio, a San Francisco-based communications company.

Source: thestar August 04, 2022 22:55 UTC