The Federal Election Commission is being urged by three powerful conservative groups to investigate censorship of Google emails.
A joint complaint was filed with the FEC by the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and National Republican Senate Committee. The groups are asking the FEC to investigate findings of a March-released North Carolina State University (NC State) study detailing Google’s alleged left-leaning bias.
Gmail marked emails sent by right-leaning candidates as spam at 59.3 per cent, compared with left-leaning ones.
Ronna McDaniel Chair of the RNC, NRSC Chairman Senator Rick Scott (R.FL) and NRCC Chairman Rep. Tom Emmer(R.MN), stated that Google has been obscuring conservative messages via its activities in a joint statement.
“As midterm elections approach, we are formally calling on the FEC to investigate the extent and intentionality of Google’s censorship of Republican fundraising efforts,” they said in a press release. “This is a financially devastating example of Silicon Valley tech companies unfairly shaping the political playing field to benefit their preferred far-left candidates.”
According to a Fox News report, the three Republican groups estimate that GOP candidates lost $529 million worth of contributions in this midterm election cycle due to biased Gmail filtering algorithms. According to the Fox News story, Republicans have raised $249 Million from Gmail users so far.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter April 27 asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai to explain the platform’s pattern of bias. He noted the company’s partnership with the foreign, leftist dark-money Center for Countering Digital Hate. Google threatened to take down the conservative website. Federalist from the Google Ads platform in 2020 based on the content of the news site’s comments section.
Hawley also pointed to results from the NC State study that found Google’s bias was “substantially worse” than any other major email provider. The same study found that Microsoft’s email spam algorithm favored Republicans only by a margin of 20 percent and Yahoo’s algorithm by 14 percent, compared to Google favoring Democrats by a margin of nearly 60 percent.
Hawley asked Pichai why Gmail’s filtering algorithm bias was “so much more pronounced” than Outlook’s and Yahoo’s bias.
“Google’s market power across so many sectors of the internet provides it with an unprecedented ability to control what messages ultimately get out. Accordingly, your company should take immediate corrective action in response to these findings,” Hawley wrote. “Preserving the integrity of the 2022 elections demands no less.”
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