LU Makes Email Addresses Available to Campaigns for a Fee as Candidates Grow Increasingly Savvy with Big Data

Liberty University (VA) leased an expansive list of university-owned student email addresses to Republican Corey Stewart’s campaign for U.S. Senate in a pair of rare transactions that campaign experts said represents a new front in the growing world of digital electioneering in federal races. The Stewart campaign paid the university a total of $9,754.80 in two separate payments, according to publicly available campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.