Political text messaging in the United States

[6] A 2021 Supreme Court decision (Facebook Inc. vs Duguid et al.) further loosened regulations,[7][8] suggesting that political texts do not violate a federal ban on robocalls and political campaigns did not need to get recipients' consent as long as they do not use randomly generated numbers.

[3][5] Many political parties and operations are able to retrieve publicly available voter registration information from state election registers, including exact phone numbers.

[4] The New York Times reported that enacting meaningful consumer protections will likely require an act of Congress.

[5] Many Americans had a negative reaction to the texts, seeing them as a violation of privacy, and objecting to their often apocalyptic tone and artificial sense of urgency.

[8] Political misinformation is another problem, as according to The New York Times, the texts became "a handy method for political actors to quietly propagate the same kind of divisiveness and disinformation that already abounds on social media — only away from the public scrutiny of academic researchers, fact-checking groups and journalists.