Gmail is actively suppressing emails from Republicans from hitting your inbox. Ronny Jackson, interpreted the study to mean that conservative campaigns were being intentionally and unfairly targeted by Google. The researchers found the opposite trend among the inboxes of Yahoo and Outlook users. The study researchers found that campaign and fundraising emails from conservative groups and candidates more frequently went to Gmail users’ spam folders in the lead up to the 2020 election than those from liberal or left-leaning sources. More recently, a March study from North Carolina State University’s computer science department added fuel to the fire. “Why is this only happening to Republicans?,” he asked. “Suddenly, I get elected to Congress, and I’m now up here in Washington, D.C., and my parents, who have a Gmail account, aren’t getting my campaign emails,” Steube claimed. Greg Steube showed up at a congressional hearing about tech monopolies to complain that his parents weren’t seeing his campaign emails. The pending pilot policy comes after years of contention between the company and Republicans in Congress over the alleged political bias of Gmail spam filters.īack in 2020, Florida Rep. We look forward to exploring new ways to provide the best possible Gmail experience. We recently asked the FEC to authorise a pilot program that may help improve inboxing rates for political bulk senders and provide more transparency into email deliverability, while still letting users protect their inboxes by unsubscribing or labelling emails as spam. We want Gmail to provide a great experience for all of our users, including minimising unwanted email, but we do not filter emails based on political affiliation. In an emailed statement to Gizmodo, Google spokesperson, José Castañeda, confirmed the company’s FEC request and wrote: The FEC filing was first obtained by Axios. From there, users would get a “prominent” nudge to either keep receiving emails from the same sender, or to opt out, according to the filing. Instead of being screened by Gmail’s spam filter, all qualifying political emails from would instead go directly to users’ inboxes. John Thune and 25 other Republican legislators introduced a bill on June 16 aiming to make it “unlawful for an operator of an email service to use a filtering algorithm to apply a label to an email sent to an email account from a political campaign unless the owner or use of the account took action to apply such a label.” Google seems to be trying to get ahead of a proposed bill. That is, as long as those messages don’t violate the platform’s other rules around phishing, malware, or illegal activity. The new program would allow emails from “authorised candidate committees, political party committees and leadership political action committees registered with the FEC,” to bypass Gmail’s spam categorization system, the filing read. charset – used to set MIMEText _charsetĪdds another recipient to the message.After years of grumbling from Republicans in Congress, Google has requested that the Federal Election Commission allow a pilot program in which political campaign emails would be exempt from spam filtering.attachments – list of Attachment instances.sender – email sender address, or DEFAULT_MAIL_SENDER by default.Message ( subject, recipients=None, body=None, html=None, sender=None, cc=None, bcc=None, attachments=None, reply_to=None, charset=None ) ¶Įncapsulates an email message. Takes same arguments as Message constructor. Sends message through system’s sendmail client.
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