No Kid Hungry’s Summer Texting Number Goes Viral

When advocates shared information about the summer meals texting service following No Kid Hungry’s summer giving day, it generated increased traffic on Facebook, including major Facebook pages with millions of followers. No Kid Hungry’s “text to find a summer meals site” service went viral. Due to much interest and inquiries questioning if the service was too good to be true, it prompted fact-checking website Snopes.com to investigate and run a story on the service. This moment generated more than 200,000 texts to the service – more than the previous four years combined.