Google executives are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee accusing the tech giant of disproportionately marking campaign emails sent by the GOP as spam.
Google filed a motion in the Eastern District of California to dismiss the lawsuit on Monday night, claiming the RNC’s arguments were"both illogical and contrary to the facts alleged in its own complaint,” the filing states, according to a copy obtained by Axios. The request comes after the Federal Election Commission ruled last week that Google did not show bias against Republicans in its Gmail feature that filters campaign messages.
The RNC filed a lawsuit in October alleging the tech giant was unfairly marking GOP campaign emails as spam while allowing Democratic messages to land in users’ inboxes. The committee accused Google of exhibiting “blatant bias” by sending the party’s get-out-the-vote messages and fundraising emails to spam folders without explaining why, according to the suit.
The lawsuit came in response to a pilot program Google began implementing in August that allowed campaign emails to bypass the platform’s spam filters so that users could see the messages before moving them to the junk folder themselves. The program is scheduled to end on Jan. 31. Google initiated that program shortly after the FEC ruled it would be legal under campaign finance laws, prompting criticism from some Republicans who argued it wasn’t enough to ensure GOP emails made their way to voters.
That study prompted Senate Republicans to introduce a bill in June that would require Big Tech companies to disclose how their filtering techniques work. The legislation failed to make its way to a floor vote before the new Congress began on Jan. 3.
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