Rubio Accuses Google Of Election Bias, Censoring Campaign Emails
Rubio Accuses Google Of Election Bias, Censoring Campaign Emails
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) blamed Google for
allegedly filtering his emails to supporters in the run-up to the midterms this
fall, describing on May 21 his current situation as being in “purgatory.”
The senator said that up to 90 percent of his campaign emails to
supporters with a registered Gmail address never reach their inboxes but go to
the spam folder. He said it comes after his Democratic opponent Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) announced a year ago
she would run against him in the 2022 midterm elections.
“Marco
Rubio for Senate is in @Google purgatory. Since a Pelosi puppet announced she
was running against me, they have sent 66% of my emails to REGISTERED
SUPPORTERS with @gmail to spam,” Rubio
wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
“And
during the final weeks of finance quarters, it climbs to over 90%,” the
post reads.
The Epoch Times has reached out to Google for comment.
Rubio currently serves as a two-term senator for the state of
Florida, and is facing Demings in Florida’s 2022 general election on Nov. 8. As
the Sunshine State prepares for its primary on Aug. 23, the Republican senator
has been holding an average lead over
Demings among registered voters.
Republicans filed a joint
complaint on April 27 with the Federal Election Commission to
investigate Gmail’s algorithm—which “makes it much harder for Republicans to
reach their supporters” than Democrats and stifles the fundraising efforts of
Republicans—as claimed by researchers at North Carolina State University
(NCSU).
The GOP groups said Google’s algorithm could potentially cost
them over $1 billion.
“Gmail
marked 59.3% more emails from the right candidates as spam compared to the left
candidates, whereas Outlook and Yahoo marked 20.4% and 14.2% more emails from
left candidates as spam compared to the right candidates, respectively,” the NCSU
study shows (pdf).
Although researchers said no evidence suggests that the
classifications are “deliberate attempts” to influence voters, “their SFAs
[spam filtering algorithms] have learnt to mark more emails from one political
affiliation as spam compared to the other.”
Last week, Politico first reported that
Republican senators held a private meeting with Kent Walker, president of
global affairs and chief legal officer at Google, over email bias claims
against the company.
“Mail
classifications in Gmail automatically adjust to match Gmail users’ preferences
and actions,” a Google spokesperson said in a
previous email, responding to the NCSU study.
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