Google Suppresses GOP Get Out The Vote Emails
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When it comes to Big Tech placing a weighty thumb on the political scales, it isn’t easy to compete with Twitter and Facebook, which suppressed the Hunter laptop bombshell that implicated Biden in selling influence to our communist enemies just before the election. But Google manages:
According to RNC officials, emails being sent by the RNC to Republican subscribers who use Gmail accounts in the final days of each month are being sent to spam folders.
An RNC official told Fox News Digital that since Sept. 28, Gmail has “suppressed” more than 22 million RNC emails—358,000 of which were GOTV emails.
The RNC has complained to Google for months to no avail.
“Every single month, like clockwork, Google suppresses important GOTV and fundraising emails at the end of the month, with zero explanation nor commitment from Google to resolve this issue,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Fox News. “We are less than 40 days out from Election Day, and important GOTV emails to our opted-in voters in states that have already started early voting are being systematically sent to spam.”
The arrogance and unfairness are characteristic of Google, which semicovertly suppresses anything to the right of all the way left.
Republicans have pointed to a non-partisan study by researchers at North Carolina State University which found that Gmail allows the vast majority of emails from the Democratic Party to land in the user’s inbox while more than two-thirds of messages from conservative candidates are marked as spam. …
During the 2020 election cycle, an RNC official said the study found that Gmail routed Republican emails to spam at a rate approximately 820% higher than similar Democrat fundraising appeals.
Google has potentially cost Republicans $billions in fundraising. Like the “mainstream” media and the FBI, it has become a tentacle of the Democrat Party octopus.
Remarks Robert Spencer,
As the Left grows progressively more open about its authoritarianism and hostility to opposing points of view, ultimately Big Tech, including Google, is going to destroy the freedom of speech, or that freedom is going to be afforded new protections and the tech giants’ ability to infringe upon it will be restricted. It’s one or the other, and the very fate of our free republic hangs in the balance.
If there is any hope of reform from within Big Tech, it lies with Elon Musk, who has enraged the liberal establishment with the suggestion that Twitter could be a neutral platform that allows free speech.
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Republicans have pointed to a non-partisan study by researchers at North Carolina State University which found that Gmail allows the vast majority of emails from the Democratic Party to land in the user’s inbox while more than two-thirds of messages from conservative candidates are marked as spam. …
During the 2020 election cycle, an RNC official said the study found that Gmail routed Republican emails to spam at a rate approximately 820% higher than similar Democrat fundraising appeals.
But the researchers behind the study say the findings have been cherry-picked and misrepresented in Washington — and that they found no such proof.
“Our study does not make any such conclusion,” Muhammad Shahzad, one of its lead authors, said of Daines’s claim in the group’s first media interview on the topic.
Shahzad, an associate professor in computer science, said while the paper “demonstrates that there is a bias” under certain circumstances across services, it “has nothing in it that demonstrates that someone is deliberately trying to turn the elections.”
The researchers set up over 100 email accounts across Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Outlook and Yahoo Mail and signed up for messages from more than 200 candidates in 2020. They found that all of the services exhibited political biases in which emails they sent to spam, but in varying directions.
“Gmail marked 59.3% more emails from the right candidates as spam compared to the left candidates, whereas Outlook and Yahoo marked 20.4% and 14.2% more emails from left candidates as spam compared to the right candidates, respectively,” they wrote.
That finding has become the latest piece of evidence used by Republicans to accuse Silicon Valley giants of bias. But the researchers said it’s being taken out of context.
Shahzad said while the spam filters demonstrated political biases in their “default behavior” with newly created accounts, the trend shifted dramatically once they simulated having users put in their preferences by marking some messages as spam and others as not.
“What we saw was after they were being used, the biases in Gmail almost disappeared, but in Outlook and Yahoo they did not,” he said.
Shahzad argued that the results showing how filters respond once user behavior is factored in are more “significant” given that real users’ accounts don’t stay idle.
“Gmail isn’t biased like the way it’s being portrayed,” he said. “I’m not advocating for Gmail or anything. I’m just stating that when we take the observation out of a study, you should take all of the observations, not just cherry-pick a few and then try to use them.”
Republicans omitted or downplayed biases against Democrats in Outlook and Yahoo Mail.
In a letter bashing Google over the findings, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) noted that Microsoft and Yahoo’s algorithms “favored one party,” but left out the fact that it was his own. Hawley also claimed that the researchers anticipated and “refuted” Google’s remarks that the findings could be explained by user behavior.
Shahzad said that’s not true — they couldn’t definitively prove either way whether user behavior was the true driving cause behind the bias, but he speculated that it's a large factor.
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According to RNC officials, emails being sent by the RNC to Republican subscribers who use Gmail accounts in the final days of each month are being sent to spam folders.
An RNC official told Fox News Digital that since Sept. 28, Gmail has “suppressed” more than 22 million RNC emails—358,000 of which were GOTV emails.
