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Several bills in the General Assembly take aim at threatening personal messages sent via popular social media, such as Twitter and Facebook.
The measures would expand the definition of criminal harassment to include text messaging and other forms of electronic communication.
Currently, the only form of electronic harassment the law governs is that sent through email, said Del. Mary Washington, the sponsor of a bill that would expand the law to include any electronic transmission of information or data from one person to another that Maryland law considers harassing or obscene.