Business | September 30, 2020

When businesses want to communicate with their customers via e-mail, many send messages with a bogus return address, e.g. “somethinghere@donotreply.com.” The practice is meant to communicate to recipients that any replies will go unread. But when those messages are sent to an inactive e-mail address or the recipient ignores the instruction and replies anyway, the…

Business | September 30, 2020

The messages have been emanating in recent months from the accounts of young people in Arizona seemingly expressing their own views — standing up for President Trump in a battleground state and echoing talking points from his reelection campaign.Far from representing a genuine social media groundswell, however, the posts are the product of a sprawling…