An Investigation into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

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axus · 36m ago

Cool that they provide 500 lines of R code used to generate the analysis.

You'd need to sign up for an API key here: https://api.data.gov/signup/

A pass-through rate of < 2% seems unbelievable, makes me wonder how well other operations perform.

bix6 · 41m ago

How do you get off these lists?

gigel82 · 40m ago

What I want to know is how do I get myself off their damn list? I collected 46 different numbers pointing to at least 21 different domains before I gave up. Reported everything to the FCC but nothing happened. These "democratic" spam texts make up 99%+ of the spam I'm receiving and it's driving me insane...

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An Investigation into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

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