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Racist trolls celebrated the election by texting Black voters to "pick cotton"

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The day after Election Day , predominantly Black recipients in at least six states received racist, trollish text messages.

The messages were sent from varying numbers and area codes.

Princeton University researchers say they have a theory about how the messages targeted Black recipients.

They advise recipients not to post screenshots of the messages that could inadvertently expose identifying information.