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When civic engagement opens you up to exploitation

I signed up for voter alerts and now I get hundreds of texts from campaigns and scammers and I cannot tell which are real anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Democratic participation has become inseparable from commercial targeting, making every act of citizenship a vulnerability.

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“Where Are You with Technology and democracy?”

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