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The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson wrote [PDF] to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday, citing a recent New York Post report that alleged Gmail was routinely flagging Republican fundraisers' emails as spam, while not doing the same to missives from their Democratic counterparts.

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[–] MacStainless@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey remember the time Republicans complained about the same thing, so Google built a system they could use to bypass spam filters, but no Republicans used it, so Google shut the program down?

Pepperidge Farm remembers. RNC sued Google for filtering spam but never used Gmail tool that bypasses filter