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


Americans across the country received harmful hate messages via text after the election. The communication industry has been trying to figure out how it happened.

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. Victims of the recent hateful mass-text campaign ranged from descendants of slaves in North Carolina, to middle and high schoolers in more than 10 states and college students at historically black universities, or HBCUs, in the South and Mid-Atlantic. Claflin University was founded in the wake of the Civil War, the oldest institution of its kind in South Carolina; despite the intervening years, racism remains a constant presence in young people's lives in America.

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