Google accused of messing with GOP email

 Newsmax:

Researchers' findings that the majority of Republican candidates' fundraising emails went to a spam folder in the Gmail accounts owned by Google, while Democrat candidates' emails were delivered, were "horrifying to see," Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel told Newsmax Wednesday, following a filing to the Federal Election Commission about the issue.

"These researchers in North Carolina, nonpartisan researchers, said that with the Republican Party and campaign emails 70% of them, went to spam," McDaniel said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "For Democrats, less than 10% went to spam, so we've done some number calculation over since 2019 that would cost Republican candidates in the over $2 billion in donations, not to mention all the get-out-the-vote and other things that are important with these emails."

The RNC, along with the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, filed the FEC complaint against Google on Tuesday night, and McDaniel said she hopes action is taken.

"It is Big Tech putting their thumb on the scale once again against Republicans and for Democrats," said McDaniel.

Earlier this year, North Carolina State University's Department of Computer Science published its study, "A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020," after a study from July 1, 2020, to Nov. 30, 2020, to determine if algorithms for Gmail, Microsoft's Outlook, and Yahoo were biased toward any certain party and determined that Gmail "routed Republican emails to spam at a rate approximately 820% higher than similar Democrat fundraising appeals during the 2020 Election cycle," the RNC said in a press release.

"We are formally calling on the FEC to investigate the extent and intentionality of Google's censorship of Republican fundraising efforts," the groups, led by McDaniel; NRSC Chair Rick Scott, R-Fla.; and NRCC Chair Tom Emmer, R-Minn., said in a statement. "This is a financially devastating example of Silicon Valley tech companies unfairly shaping the political playing field to benefit their preferred far-left candidates. Companies like Google don't think you have the right to hear both sides. They'd rather make the decision for you."
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If true, it is not clear to me why they are not suing Google for sabotaging their fund raisin efforts. 

See, also:

Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall

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