They have set up fake sites impersonating the Harris campaign using fake policy positions and then sending out text messages also impersonating the campaign which aim to drive voters to the fake site.
(A lot of potential legal and regulatory questions turns on word like “fake” and “impersonating”, which we’ll return to in a moment.).
The project is the work of Building America’s Future PAC, which seems to be largely and perhaps now entirely funded by Elon Musk.
The PAC also funded a text message campaign which pushes the same fake policy messages impersonating Harris’s campaign and drives recipients of the texts to the site.
The texts and the site are clearly meant to make you think that these come from the Harris campaign or perhaps one of its associated committees.
It would be totally normal for the Harris campaign or one of its associated committees to have set up a site with such a name.
If these said “paid for by Harris for President” you’d have a straight up campaign finance violation. »
