Republicans sue Google over Gmail election spam plan

Date:
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:16:22 +0000

Description:
The RNC is suing Google over claims that its end-of-month fundraising emails are being marked as spam.

FULL STORY ======================================================================

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has criticized efforts from Google that the tech giant says aims to help stop political emails being sent to
spam folders.

According to Axios , the group says Google's plans don't do enough to prevent automatic filtering, and are now set to take the tech giant to court in California.

According to the allegation, Google has relegated millions of RNC emails en masse to potential donors and supporters spam folders during pivotal points
in election fundraising and community building. Gmail political email filtering

The RNS claims to have observed normal delivery of its emails throughout most parts of the month, with many of its emails being sent to spam toward the end of the month. They say that this end of the month period is historically when the RNCs fundraising is most successful.

Following criticism that more Republican content than Democratic content was getting filtered as spam, Google launched a pilot program in September 2022 that would see users having to mark political campaign emails as spam in the first instance, in the hope that more political campaign emails would be delivered straight to users mailboxes. The feature would then offer up a more prominent unsubscribe button for users to opt out. Read more

We've rounded up the best email hosting providers

Google hits back at claims Gmail inbox filters are biased

Gmail is getting the security upgrade it's always needed

A Google spokesperson told Axios that Gmails spam filters reflect users actions, however following more than nine months discussions, the RNC says that the issue is still unresolved.

However, the publication noted that the RNC has not enrolled in Gmails spam filtering pilot program which is designed to alleviate these kinds of errors.

The ability for political campaigners emails to bypass the email service s spam filtering was granted by the Federal Election Commission in August. When the feature rolled out, eligible committees were then able to register their participation subject to terms and requirements set out by Google.

Via Axios Check out the best firewall tools



======================================================================
Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/republicans-sue-google-over-gmail-election-spam -plan/


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64)
* Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100)