Google accused of suppressing Republican Party emails

The RNC is preparing legal action against the tech giant for burying millions of GOP fundraising and voter canvassing emails.

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Juan Carlos Téllez

6 de octubre, 2022

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) is accusing Google of hiding GOP fundraising and voter canvassing emails. The GOP leadership noted that the tech giant has filed millions of the party's public outreach emails to the spam folders of Gmail users.

According to Fox News, the Republican Party is considering legal action to put an end to Google's censorship techniques. GOP leadership claims that the company has been engaging in these practices for months, having intensified now that the midterm elections are approaching.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel remarked the following to Fox News:

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.

"A clear pattern of bias"

The Republican Party sends thousands of emails each month to Republican subscribers. Now, according to the GOP, "90 to 100%" these emails are being redirected to spam folders towards the end of each month.

An official told Fox News that Google has deleted more than 22 million GOP emails "90 to 100%" this year as of Sept. 28. Around 358,000 of these mailings were so-called get out the vote or GOTV messages.

Faced with this situation, the party leadership is threatening to explore legal options to put an end to what they consider a "clear pattern of bias." According to them, these methods of censorship dates back to February.

On Sept. 30, according to the RNC, Gmail filed nearly 10 million total emails as spam. Of those, 99,000 were GOTV messages in Virginia and Minnesota, where early voting for the midterms began Sept. 23.