The Long, Strange History of the Presidential Text Alert
The Long, Strange History of the Presidential Text Alert
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 9, 201811m 7s
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Show Notes
Donald Trump plans to text you Wednesday, whether you want him to or not. The first nationwide test of the government’s Presidential Alert system will unfold at 2:18 pm ET, when every cell phone user in the United States will receive a text message from FEMA saying, “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.
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