How did racist mass texts bypass some anti-spam guardrails after the election?

Daniel Hertzberg for NPR

At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the mood on campus around the presidential election was “definitely somber,” said Samantha Greene, the president of the school’s Black Student Movement organization.

But things only got worse once the results were in. Students, including members of the Black Student Movement, started receiving racist text messages in the days after the election from numbers they didn’t recognize.

Many of the victims were previously part of pro-Palestinian protests on campus earlier that spring, and were already sensitive about giving out their personal information. They were scared of retribution, violence or being “doxxed” and having

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