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Apple expected to roll out texting update that would hit GOP hardest ahead of midterms, fundraisers say
Apple's September iOS 26 update is expected to introduce text message filtering that GOP digital strategists claim could disproportionately affect conservative fundraising efforts.
The interference begins. Right out in the open.................
An iPhone update coming in September is raising alarms among Republicans who say it will disproportionately block conservative fundraising and voter outreach efforts, echoing past Big Tech controversies that targeted GOP voters.
"It’s no surprise that Big Tech wants to stop Donald Trump and other Republicans from communicating with people, because they’ve tried every other method to interfere already," Sean Dollman, founding partner of American Made Media Company, the parent company of Launchpad Strategies, which was the exclusive digital firm for Trump 2024, told Fox News Digital.
"Big Tech has suppressed him, suspended him, and banned him outright. And now they’re trying to make it so he can’t text anybody either.