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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by qzx_pierri on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:21AM (#28772823)
I donated to his campaign after seeing him on JRE, and I’ve been getting spam emails from political candidates ever since. I’ve blocked at least 7-8 different “PLEASE DONATE” mailers, but they keep coming. I think Yang sold my info.
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by nipponese on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:42AM (#28773742)
He is quoted as saying he did not, but when you donate directly to a campaign is get put into a public FEC db, which obviously gets scraped.

https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P00006486/

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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by erentz on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:33AM (#28774370)
I donated to a few candidates and the same thing happened. Not sure if it’s from the campaigns individually, or via the Act Blue platform that they all used.
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by TimJRobinson on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:36AM (#28796996)
I think it's ActBlue that does that, after interacting with them in any way it's a constant deluge of spam from Democratic Candidates.
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by RankingMember on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:32AM (#28773630)
This happens when I donate to any candidate. Not saying it's right, but it does seem to be the norm.
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by dfxm12 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:03AM (#28773324)
He did. I mean, maybe not him personally, but unfortunately, that is the punishment for your generosity when you choose to donate to most causes.
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