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It appears that mass emails inciting violence and sent from contact@victory.donaldtrump.com were somehow flagged by the bulk email sender, ExactTarget (a SalesF
by jt2190 6y ago
It appears that mass emails inciting violence and sent from contact@victory.donaldtrump.com were somehow flagged by the bulk email sender, ExactTarget (a SalesForce company):
> To send its emails, the Trump campaign uses infrastructure from a company called ExactTarget, an email marketing firm now owned by Salesforce, according to a Motherboard analysis of the emails. The emails are sent in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, according to the emails themselves. In response to a question about whether the company had taken action to prevent Trump from using the "contact@victory.donaldtrump.com" email infrastructure, Salesforce said it had "taken action" against the RNC to "prevent its use of our services in any way that could lead to violence." [1]
This “analysis” reads to me like:
• someone subscribed to a list
• they received emails inciting violence
• they contacted ExactTarget and asked them if they were aware/doing anything, and ExactTarget said “yes”
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdmdv/salesforce-takes-action-to-prevent-rnc-emails-from-inciting-violence https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdmdv/salesforce-takes-acti...
- saberdancer 6y agoI'm curious, are there examples of emails inciting violence? I live in Europe, all news we get is filtered through several layers of reporters (mostly incompetent). I will admit, I am not following these news very closely but these emails could be very damning.
- saberdancer 6y agoI've read your link in more detail. I don't think your analysis is accurate. To be exact the part about receiving emails inciting violence. I think there were no such emails, but they asked Salesforce did they do anything about potential future emails inciting violence. Salesforce says yes. They probably either suspended the account or put in some kind of verification step where Salesforce needs to whiteflag the email to go forward. This was they can stop any potential email inciting violence, but still isn't extremely damaging to the company.