Make Them Stop. How to Curb Incessant Political Text Messages

The campaign texts with eye-roll inducing openers like “NOT ASKING FOR $” or “The 600% MATCH won’t last forever” are flooding all of our phones these days. 

Jim Laws, a 70-year-old retired anesthetist in West Palm Beach, Fla., received a text in early June with a link to a survey about the state of the nation. The message said the sender wasn’t asking for money.

Laws opened the link and answered the questions, only to end up on a screen that prompted him to send money to process his results. He returned to the message and wrote, “Liar Liar Liar” and “stop Stop STOP!!!” then deleted the thread.