FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson claims Google is using "partisan" spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ftc-claims-gmail-filtering-republican-emails-threatens-american-freedoms/
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Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 347d
Lol! Yeah, I don't think it's Google doing that. Or, this guy just doesn't understand how spam filters work.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 347d
They may actually be doing it l. There was a leaked presentation from after trump won the first time that Google was going to stop being neutral and start being more active in pushing their beliefs.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 347d
What beliefs do they even hold beyond line must go up?
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 14 pts · 347d
Line up must be steeper
riskable@programming.dev · 19 pts · 347d
Republicans: "Google keeps blocking our emails!" Google: "Yep. Stop sending spam!"
foggy@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 347d
Lmao
If this is what they think will help I've got some baaaad news
raptore39@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 347d
When thousands of people report an email as spam to be filtered in future, the servers learn that the account sending it may be spam, thus proactively filtering it. Reporting spam is supposed to result in less spam in the future!
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 347d
at some point they're going to accuse the Heart of the World of having partisan bias in order to justify shattering it into 1000 lums that will be strewn across the land as we are plunged further into an era of chaos and darkness
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
The Republicans are nothing if not whiny little piss babies.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
Lemme tell ya, it's not just Republican spam they're filtering... Every time I check my spam folder, it's absolutely overflowing with pestering emails from the DNC
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Same. Somebody passing around emails!
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 347d
They… are spam.
LetMeShowYouAThing@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 347d
They should let through all the Republican spam from now on. I’m sure people will find it endearing.