The original Politico article says the DNC plans to "work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation" and has no further information about what that entails.<p>The Politico White House Correspondent has clarified in a tweet[1] that "Outside groups are attempting to flag to SMS carriers false information campaigns that are driving misinformation on vaccines."<p>So it appears the goal is to specifically identify the misinformation campaigns. Since it's non-governmental, "outside groups", doing the identification I think that'd mean the information they're using to do this is, if not outright publicly available, at least acquirable/purchasable by arbitrary companies already.<p>So at this point my conclusion is that no text messages sent by private individuals will be read as part of this that weren't already available to the highest bidder (e.g. for advertising/tracking purposes). Further, there's no indication that any private text messages at all will be modified, corrected, or made to include fact-check warnings or anything like that based on their content.<p>And as described it could be even be as benign as asking people if they've gotten text message spam with that misinformation and trying to look for a pattern.<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/natashakorecki/status/1414716378385424387" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/natashakorecki/status/141471637838542438...</a>