My Journey to the Center of America’s Political Spam Text Hell

I’ve gotten nearly 2,000 campaign fundraising texts that were meant for someone else. I tried to find out why—and uncovered a labyrinth of politicians, data brokers, and shady tactics.

作者因數據公司把親屬的捐款記錄錯配到自己的手機號，多年收到上千條民主黨籌款短信，退訂無效。追蹤短信中的追蹤碼後，他發現這些信息多來自利用AI建立捐款人數據庫並出租名單的Sterling Data Company。