Voting rights groups are sounding the alarm about anonymous text messages allegedly sent to college students in Wisconsin, threatening them with prison if they vote, according to CNN."The unsolicited text, sent from at least one 262- number to cell phones of people in their early 20s on University o...
Really? You would trust a random text telling you that you will go to prison for participating in a cornerstone of our democracy? The internet existed 20 years ago… You really wouldn’t have thought to double check?
You also have to consider a twenty year old and just running with the possibility. They don’t care if it’s necessarily true. They don’t have enough experience to know it’s probably not true.