In the hours after President Trump won a second term last year, Americans nationwide started receiving hate-filled text messages taking aim at their race, gender, sexuality or religion. Investigators ...

"Three years ago, [mass-texting] would've been the Wild West," Brad Herrmann, the CEO of Text-Em-All, a mass messaging service, told NPR. The first instinct was to create strict firewalls that blocked ...

Around 3:30 p.m. Jan. 8, some parents reported receiving a message from Rockford Public Schools District 205 saying their ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the mood on campus around the presidential election was "definitely somber," said Samantha Greene, the president of the school's Black Student ...

People use text messaging to directly harass, stalk or issue threats. Victims of the recent hateful mass-text campaign ranged from descendants of slaves in North Carolina, to middle and high schoolers ...