March 10, 2023

An article appearing in NBC News on January 26, 2023 by Alex Ford quotes Margot Saunders while looking at the more than 15 billion political texts that were sent in 2022, according to call-blocking service Robokiller, something experts attribute to a Supreme Court decision that eliminated the requirement to obtain consent when sending mass texts.

“The result of the ruling was that we now have unlimited automated telephone calls and texts,” said Margot Saunders, senior counsel for the National Consumer Law Center.

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