Posted on 05/22/2022 4:31:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberal media companies are notorious for censoring information that doesn’t fit their agenda, Google is no exception.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called for a meeting with Google amid a recent study that found the company was unfairly filtering GOP lawmakers’ emails to be hidden in spam folders.
After the meeting, Cruz told Politico that the tech giant purposely ignored Republican senators’ questions regarding Gmail’s alleged suppression of conservative political candidates’ emails.
“Google deflected, refused to provide any data, repeatedly refused to answer direct questions.”
According to the study, Gmail marked 59.3 percent more emails from the right as spam than compared to left-leaning candidates. It also revealed that months leading up to the 2020 election, it exhibited political bias towards the two parties.
In no surprise, the data confirms the political affiliation of the sender plays a major role in determining whether it will go to the spam folder or not.
Among the executives who attended the meeting, Google Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker claimed there is no bias in how the company deals with spam.
However, the study found there to be a noticeable political bias.
“(Gmail) mark emails with similar features from the candidates of one political affiliation as spam while it does not mark similar emails from the candidates of the other political affiliation as spam.”
Cruz alleges that this is a way to sway undecided voters to vote the way the liberal media wants them to vote.
The data found that if an “undecided voter receives too many emails from one political party, there is a likelihood that they may get swayed towards that party.”
This comes a month after The Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and National Republican Senate Committee filed a joint complaint with the FEC about the tech giant’s algorithm.
Used to have spam in a can. Now it’s in a folder.
No, Ted that was me. Ive reported your emails as spam twice.
Team Trump went overboard and still does long after the election ended.
This is only marginally related to the subject of the orginal post, but I saw the words “GOP” and “spam” and wanted to ask for help from fellow freepers.
In the Georgia Senate runoff following the 2020 elections, I made modest donations to both GOP candidates through the candidates’ official website. They asked for information including name and address which is required by federal law, and I was foolish enough to also enter my mobile phone number in the space provided on their online form.
The thanks I have gotten for my donation is the following:
Since January 2021, I have received multiple texts to my phone per day asking for donations for various Republican causes - sometimes as many as 4 or 5 per day. Texts are one way that family/friends/colleagues can get in touch with me immediately, and it interrupts my work day to get repeated phone alerts for spam soliciting political donations. I try to block every number that sends me this spam, but they just rotate to other numbers.
Has anyone else here at FR experienced this and is there anything they’ve been able to do about it? It just seems highly unprofessional to abuse donors in this way, but then this is the Republican Party, so maybe unprofessional is redundant.
When contacted with fundraising solicitations from Republican entities, I’m now telling them that I’m making no further donations to any Republican organization or candidate until the spam texts stop. However, at this stage, I fear my mobile phone number has been distributed so widely among Republican fundraising organizations that it is probably impossible to ever get my number off of all the lists.
Though I despise the political bias of Google, but given the way GOP Senators contact information for fundraising, Spam folders are the correct location for those solicitations.
Any advice?
I treat ALL unsolicited political or commercial emails as SPAM.
If I don’t already have a relationship with you, don’t waste my time sending me stuff.
I get the same thing, political spam. I just block the numbers as they roll in. Many are random, I have zero association with the sender - liberal spam as much as Trump spam.
Similar in the mailbox near election time.
There is nothing you can do about it, short of not having a smartphone and not having a mailbox.
Since January 2021, I have received multiple texts to my
phone per day asking for donations, etc
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Not sure how you handle that. I get multiple calls each day
soliciting for some cause or other. A lot don’t even respond
if you answer. Making a list for trash mail, etc as far as I
can tell.
Click this link for some links that may or may not be of help.
Hang in there.....
Recently, maybe two weeks ago or so, the texts cluttering my phone suddenly stopped. Ditto the emails
Instead, I get money requests from some congressional candidates all over the country
Give them your ex-wife’s number. Better yet, a leftie’s number.
I send all GOP email to “spam”, if having a gmail account would save me the trouble, I would do it for sure.
Great idea but I’ve been married to the same woman for 34 years! I have a feeling she would be an ex, if I gave the spammers her number though. :)
Not just politics. My MSN accounts move ALL things gun related to the junk mail folder. Every day I check it, mark them as “not junk”, open them so the system knows I’m interested. The next day they end up there again. Every last one of them. This has been going on for at least two years.
What kind of dumbarse still uses gmail or anything else associated with google?
A theory: our political leaders encourage us to write and email our thoughts to them. It isn’t that they are interested in our position (most are not) but harvesting contact data (mail, email, phone) is hugely profitable. That data is shared with pollsters, donor solicitation organizations, and other such entities. If you ask that your contact data be deleted, it usually is. However before that deletion, your info is sold to marketing firms all over the country. Your email is the golden part of that info. Snail mail is the least effective as unsolicited mail is usually trashed before reading. Phone numbers are only slightly more effective as the ‘Do Not Call’ list supposedly hinders that type of communication. Of course if you believe being on the ‘Do Not Call’ list stops any solicitor, you must also believe in unicorns. No, email info is the most effective because of our immersion in the online experience. Changing your email address is a major PITA so most folks will not do it.
I have been refused service several times because I would not provide my email address to a business. That is a small example of how important it is to some folks. If I must provide an email I usually use ‘mmouse@disney.org‘. It is always accepted.
Anyway, I only communicate with my Congress-critters via snail-mail.
That’s where they belong.
Google, run by money-mad leftists, could not resist the temptation to add a little code to its algorithms to favor some businesses more than others, to favor some parties more than others, to promote some thoughts more than others, to hide some truths, to do the bidding of some regimes and not others.
And so google has become a full-time promoter of leftist thought.
Happens all the time— Robert Malone gets put in promotions, no matter how many times I click on this not a promotion. There has to be a decent alternative to google.. and duck duck go is not it. I remember the old search engines, and they were already pretty good..
Truth Social needs to create a search engine.
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