FTC chair claims that Gmail uses partisan liquidation
The Chairman of the Federal Trade Committee (FTC) Andrew Ferguson, Gmail, warned the largest email service in the world, which may face a federal investigation this week on allegations that the company was deliberately suppressing the messages sent by Republicans.
“I understand recent reports that Gmail routinely prevents the messages from reaching consumers when these messages come from Republican messengers but fail to prevent similar messages from Democrats,” Ferguson wrote in a letter on Thursday to Sondar Pachay, CEO of Google Parent Abphabet.
In the letter, Ferguson warned that the contradictions of the RAM in Gmail based on politics “can lead to an investigation into the Federal Trade Committee and possible enforcement procedures.”
The head of the Federal Trade Committee, which President Trump appointed in December, wrote: “The right of the consumer to hear candidates or parties, including requests for donations, said, because the political preferences of the consumer may contradict the preferences of your company or your employees.”
“If the American Gmail filters are prevented from receiving the speech they expect, or they donate as they see appropriate, the female candidates may harm American consumers and may violate the FTC’s ban on unfair or deceptive commercial practices.”
Republicans have long complained that Gmail’s random mail filters have been transferred to the Republican Party emails away from users ’inbox at a high rate. The company has repeatedly denied the application of filters incorrectly.
A Google spokesman said in a statement on Friday. “This applies equally to all messengers, regardless of political ideology.”
“We will review this message and look forward to engaging in a constructive manner,” the company added.
A federal judge rejected a lawsuit in 2023, which was filed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) against Google, accused of an attempt to “suppress the political discourse and entered a secret political party secretly” by defining Republican emails as unwanted messages.
The American boycott judge, Daniel J. Calpreta in this ruling that other factors can contribute to the liquidation of RNC emails, noting that “RNC sends a large number of emails for individuals in their list.”
“Although some users may be, perhaps many, they specifically want each of these emails, Google can consider these email messages reasonably as unacceptable group correspondence, just as the other email caners can,” she wrote. “In this case, RNC claim that Google acted in” bad faith “does not rise above the speculative level.”
The Federal Elections Committee (FEC) also rejected a complaint from RNC about Gmail in that year that claimed that the company had made “illegal illegal contributions” to Democrats by liquidating Republican emails to random post folders.
“Google has supported the dissolution of her asking that the unwanted messaging candidate exists for commercial reasons and therefore did not constitute a contribution,” FEC wrote.
