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QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Black people across US receive racist text messages after Trump’s win

www.theguardian.com

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Black people across US receive racist text messages after Trump’s win

www.theguardian.com

QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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FBI investigating after people report texts saying they were selected to pick cotton and go to nearest plantation
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    deleted by creator

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      Now wait until you hear what happened with 23andMe.

      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/23andme-user-data-targeting-ashkenazi-jews-leaked-online-rcna119324

      And I’m both amazed and quite worried that nothing has come of it yet.

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        Yet. Give them time, they’ll need to figure out where it can be best integrated into Project 2025.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          That’s why I’m worried.

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      Given the state of data harvesting I imagine purchasing a list of phone numbers associated with a given demographic is trivial.

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      Google has that list, and it’s for sale. Regardless if you tell them, they know.

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        Google doesn’t sell their private data collection. They use it to target ads so it’s the most valuable thing they have (or as they would call it their “unfair advantage”), so selling it directly is out of question. There are multiple data brokers that also have very comprehensive lists that will happily sell it to anyone.

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          They sell the targeting, from there it’s simple for the advertisers to compile the list with the tracking cookies left behind.

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      Not that hard to buy people’s data these days.

    • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
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      Nothing to hide nothing to fear. Till suddenly u got so thing to hide. I hate to say it but i fucking told you so.

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      No kidding. When I heard about this I asked how the fuck do they even know it’s a black person.

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    “We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – there is no place for hate in a democracy.

    Trump is getting rid of that democracy problem

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    The south is celebrating, they’re finally going to get justice for daring elect a black man over them.

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      Again

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        No, he didn’t finish the job the first time.

        This time they’re drooling.

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    The very first place everybody’s minds need to go here is: was it russia

    Yeah it could be maga, it wouldn’t be surprising. Which russia knows. And is 100% going to try to exploit.

    This should be the default assumption, until proven otherwise.

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    “The FBI is aware of the offensive and racist text messages sent to individuals around the country and is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter,” the FBI said on Thursday.

    FBI Link: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-offensive-and-racist-text-messages

    Brian Hughes, of the Trump campaign, told NBC that they would take legal action “if we can find the origin of these messages which promote this kind of ugliness in our name.

    “President Trump built a diverse and broad coalition of support, with voters of all races and backgrounds,” he said in a statement to NBC. “The result was a landslide victory for his commonsense mandate for change. This will result in a second term that is beneficial to every working man and woman in our nation.”

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      … and if not in the second term, we’ll change the term limits to enable us to best follow this up.

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      What the FBI isn’t saying is they’re the ones who gave the suspects the list.

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    coincidence? hell no!

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    Yes everyone this year got insane amounts of text messages. I think they may have been part of voter fraud schemes.

    Also anyone see that Joe Rogan asserts Elon Musk had an app with election results before anyone else? https://grabien.com/story.php?id=499986

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