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by Zachary Roth, Minnesota Reformer �
This year’s presidential election will be the first since generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new content, including images, ...
by Minnesota Reformer
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 02:59 PM PDT
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Attorney General of New Hampshire John Formella (R) announced February 6: [AG's office] has identified the source of the January 21, 2024, robocalls received by numerous New Hampshire residents, which played a message with what appeared to be an...
by MNPundit
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 06:45 AM PST
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This week the Demon Dialer calls at my residence have dropped from more than 30 a day during election season / health insurance signup to about 4 a day. Yes, I’m old school with a landline to find my cell phone when I lose it. I quit answering the...
by UID1436665
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on Sat Jan 21, 2023 at 10:15 AM PST
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Dec 23, 2022 at 02:50 PM PST
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Last we heard from right-wing huckster racists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, they were pleading guilty to 14 counts of fraud in an Ohio courtroom for their parts in orchestrating and carrying out a racist, voter-suppressing robocalling plan in Black...
by Walter Einenkel
106 comments
on Tue Nov 29, 2022 at 08:46 PM PST
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The only real election fraud perpetrated en masse in our country over the last few decades has been by conservative operators working to legislate voter suppression laws or their satellite scam artist middle class that works to misinform, threaten, and...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 24, 2022 at 02:57 PM PDT
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Pretty sure this has been diaried about because the problem is hitting everyone, but I am really having a problem with the constant stream of junk phone calls. Calls offering to extend my car’s warranty are the majority, but I just got a new one...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Jun 03, 2021 at 02:48 PM PDT
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The seemingly never-ending saga of Republican fraudsters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman continues. These two losers have not stopped hitting new lows since coming on the scene as two-bit versions of already two-bit scam artists like Donald Trump and his...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu May 06, 2021 at 11:57 AM PDT
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In March of 2018, Trump’s then-Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai praised a federal court decision striking down the Obama-era regulations against robocalls. Pai promised to figure out a free market,...
by Walter Einenkel
155 comments
on Thu Mar 11, 2021 at 10:25 AM PST
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Right-wing salacious-lie peddlers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman got hit with some bad news on Monday, when senior U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero denied the two men’s attempts to have their civil case delayed until after their criminal...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 23, 2021 at 10:58 AM PST
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A Cleveland, Ohio grand jury indicted Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman on felony charges. New felony charges. Back in August, right-wing fraudsters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were reported as suspects in a series of misinformation robocalls that...
by Walter Einenkel
101 comments
on Tue Oct 27, 2020 at 12:20 PM PDT
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From Cleveland.com: CLEVELAND, Ohio – A grand jury in Cleveland on Tuesday indicted right-wing political hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman with felony charges connected to a multi-state robocall campaign that prosecutors say was meant to scare...
by ericlewis0
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on Tue Oct 27, 2020 at 10:25 AM PDT
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Right-wing fraudster allegedly behind series of robocalls spreading voting misinformation in Detroit Jacob Wohl is the right-wing scam artist fraudster who continues to make news because he somehow continues to not be in jail. As recently as May, audio recordings of Wohl and his strange crew of fraudriots (scamtriots?) conspiring to concoct false...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Aug 27, 2020 at 02:19 PM PDT
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Just a short diary to flag something that occurred just within the last hour. I will be brief: I am a registered Democrat in Virginia. I received a robocall the early afternoon of August 26 at home (I telework). Caller ID...
by FDRDemocrat
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on Wed Aug 26, 2020 at 11:01 AM PDT
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Just a rant. GF and I have, in addition to our mobile numbers, a land line. Don't like it? Get off our lawn. We have our reasons, chief among which is the pleasant surprise of nice chat with one of the other's friends, which doesn't happen if people...
by Crashing Vor
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on Sat Mar 21, 2020 at 07:55 AM PDT
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Since the acquittal of the Extortionist in Chief, I have been getting daily robo-calls that shout at me starting with the words, “This is Donald Trump. . .”. My first instinct was to hang up immediately, but by the third call I got curious what they...
by DocK
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on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 09:38 PM PST
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I could tell right away that the voice was a machine or recording, despite recent advances in machine conversations. They wanted to poll me on some political opinions. I tend to be impatient with unsolicited calls by machines. We have gotten so many...
by Thutmose V
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on Wed Nov 13, 2019 at 02:51 PM PST
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The FCC under Trump and his choice for chairman, Ajit Pai, has made a lot of hay about cracking down on robocalls. Robocalling has been getting out of control over the last couple of years under Pai and Trump, and frequently those robocalls seem to...
by Walter Einenkel
56 comments
on Fri Mar 29, 2019 at 12:12 PM PDT
with 66 Recommends
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John Oliver took on robocalls this week on his Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In March 2018, Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai lauded a federal court’s decision to strike down an anti-robocall bit of consumer...
by Walter Einenkel
136 comments
on Mon Mar 11, 2019 at 03:07 PM PDT
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I now receive over ten a day. Yesterday, a robocall interrupted another robocall. I give my personal phone number to my clients and therefore need to answer each call. I feel like my life is being interrupted and stolen in small pieces. It is...
by Hal Barcey
35 comments
on Fri Feb 22, 2019 at 08:21 AM PST
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