The FEC found no evidence Google engaged in prohibited contributions and said Google's spam filter were intended to keep out phishing attacks and scams.
filed to the FEC, the Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, and National Republican Congressional Committee claimed Gmail marked Republican emails as spam much more often than emails from Democrats and that, crucially, that supposed discrepancy amounted to a form of campaign contributions from Google to Democrats. Now, in a letter to Google, the FEC says it found no evidence of Google engaging in prohibited contributions.
Republicans pushing the Google political contribution narrative have cited several research papers and studies as evidence to prove their conspiratorial thesis. One of those supposed smoking guns, a March 22 from researchers at North Carolina State University, found Gmail marked 59.3% more emails from the right as spam compared to candidates from the left. When interviewed by, however, the authors of that very same study rejected Republican’s reading of their work and accused lawmakers of cherry picking results.All you need to do is sign up with your email and boom: credit for your preorder on a new Samsung device.
The RNC did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment, however in a statement provided to“Google cannot explain away how they’ve overwhelmingly and systematically diverted Republican emails to voters’ spam folders while letting Democrat emails through,” Brand said, Ironically, Google, the supposed GOP email censors, has already launched a pilot program intended in large part to assuage Republicans’ concerns, whether they’re valid or not. In a 4-1 vote last year, the FEC
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