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Source of anti-Obama text messages revealed
Tuesday night, I got an unsolicited anti-Barack Obama message on my cell phone: “Obama denies protection to babies who survive abortions. Obama is just wrong,” read the text.
Judging from Twitter, that message and others like it (“the Obama administration perpetuated misinformation about Libya. Vote against Obama!”; “Obama is using your tax dollars to fund Planned Parenthood and abortions. Is that right”) hit many hundreds, if not thousands, of phones in the D.C. area.
The messages originated as e-mails, and they came from a variety of domains including votersett.com, informedett.com, republicanett.com and GOPmessage.com. (The “ett” suffix appears to refer to “e-mail to text” — more on that shortly.)
Those domains, as IT World reported Wednesday morning, are linked to ccAdvertising, a Centreville company that does direct voter contact via robocalls.
Judging from Twitter, that message and others like it (“the Obama administration perpetuated misinformation about Libya. Vote against Obama!”; “Obama is using your tax dollars to fund Planned Parenthood and abortions. Is that right”) hit many hundreds, if not thousands, of phones in the D.C. area.
The messages originated as e-mails, and they came from a variety of domains including votersett.com, informedett.com, republicanett.com and GOPmessage.com. (The “ett” suffix appears to refer to “e-mail to text” — more on that shortly.)
Those domains, as IT World reported Wednesday morning, are linked to ccAdvertising, a Centreville company that does direct voter contact via robocalls.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/wp/2012/10/31/anti-obama-text-messages-linked-to-centreville-firm
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