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 ...

In the hours after President Trump won a second term last year, Americans nationwide started receiving hate-filled text messages taking aim at their race, gender, sexuality or religion. Investigators ...

A federal law created in 1991 sought to prevent certain phone call telemarketing practices. Called the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the law restricted corporations from using robocall ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas voters would have more transparency around political advertising and campaign expenditures under a pair of bills the House passed Friday. Mass-text messaging campaigns would have ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Thursday she is investigating whether pharmaceutical giant CVS improperly used customers' personal information to send out text ...

SOUTH BELOIT, Ill. (WIFR) - Officials with the City of South Beloit clarify a “false and unauthorized” mass text message sent to members of the community. The city says the message was sent Dec. 3 and ...

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. In the hours after President Trump ...

House Bill 4960 would make mass-text campaigns — those sent to multiple recipients in support or opposition of a candidate, party, public official or measure — a form of political advertising. iSTOCK ...