Yet another liberal news article emerges that shields Big Tech against allegations of election interference in order to protect the left.
Just days after Politico Google leftists from election interference allegations The Washington Post attempted to whitewash the results of a university study finding considerable left-leaning bias in Gmail’s spam-filtering algorithm.
The Post’s piece, Post Cristiano Lima is a tech reporter, assisted by Post tech policy researcher Aaron Schaffer, wrote that congressional Republicans “omitted or downplayed biases against Democrats in Outlook and Yahoo Mail.”
But it’s a bit curious how GOP politicians could downplay the study’s findings, given that it showed much lesser bias in favor of right-wing candidates by Outlook and Yahoo than it showed in favor of left-wing candidates by Gmail.
Following a North Carolina State University (NC State), March-released study that detailed bias in the survey, the Republican National Committee as well as the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRSC), filed a combined complaint with the Federal Election Commission.
Gmail marked emails from right-leaning candidate as spam 59% more often than left-leaning applicants, according to the study. The same study found that Microsoft Outlook’s email spam algorithm favored Republicans only by a margin of 20 percent and Yahoo’s algorithm by 14 percent.
It also defies logical consistency that Lima and Schaffer cited study author Muhammad Shahzad as an authoritative source while also allowing Google spokesperson Ross Richendrfer to take a swipe at the study as having “’major flaws,’ including ‘an exceedingly small sample size,” as well as “outdated two-year-old data.’”
The Post The same researcher also stated in the piece that the study does not show anyone “deliberately” trying to influence elections.
But the core concerns expressed by GOP lawmakers and aides stem from the finding that Gmail’s spam filter skewed against GOP candidates at all, and more so than Outlook’s and Yahoo’s spam filters disadvantaged Democratic Party candidates. In a letter sent to Google CEO, Sen. Josh Hawley (Republican from Missouri) stated this. Sundar Pichai, demanding he answer, “Why, in Google’s view, is Gmail’s filtering algorithm bias so much more pronounced than Outlook and Yahoo’s bias?”
The NC State study plainly stated that Google’s, Outlook’s and Microsoft’s filtering biases could have an “unignorable impact” on election outcomes, and the study included no pretense of accusing Gmail of “deliberately” trying to influence elections.
It’s unclear whether The Post We want you to be able to see that information based on our reporting.
Conservatives under attack Contact your local representative and demand that Big Tech mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives.
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