Racist, hateful text messages should be reported to the FBI, agency says

NBC DFW reports on FBI guidance regarding a coordinated campaign of racist text messages targeting African-American, Hispanic, and LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as high school students. The messages vary in content but commonly reference forced labor ("pick cotton on a plantation"), deportation, or forced re-education camps. The FBI confirms awareness of the incidents, states it has coordinated with the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and reports no verified violent acts have resulted, while encouraging recipients to report messages to the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov. The reporting relies entirely on FBI statements without independent verification of the scope or source of the campaign, and the independent search results provided relate to FISA surveillance powers rather than this specific hate message incident, limiting external corroboration of the story's claims.