The FTC Google is warning of the “Partisan” random filters for Gmail

Andrew Ferguson, the head of Trump’s appointed to the Federal Trade Committee, recently worried that the “Alphabet of Gmail administration is designed for partisan influences.”

in A message addressed to the CEO of Alphabet Sundar PichaiFerguson referred to A recent story in the New York Post Description of complaints through the targeted victory (consulting company and general relationships on that I worked with the Republican National Committee and X Musk’s X) On the pretext that the Gmail Flags emails that link it to the republican donation platform wins the name of the random mail, without doing the same thing for email messages that link it to the democracy platform.

“I understand recent reports is that Gmail random filters routinely prevent messages from reaching consumers when these messages come from Republican messengers, but they fail to prevent similar messages sent by Democrats,” Ferguson wrote.

Alphabet has warned that if Gmail filters “prevent Americans from receiving the speech they expect, or they donate as they see it appropriate, candidates may lead to harm to American consumers and may violate the FTC’s law to unfair or deceptive commercial practices,” adding to “the investigation of FTC and potential benefit procedures.”

In response, Google spokesman told axios Gmail random mail filters “see a variety of objective signals – such as whether people represent a specific e -mail as undesirable messages, or if a specific advertising agency sends a large volume of emails that are often characterized by unwanted messages”, and they said that the company applies this approach “equal to all messengers, regardless of adocers Politics.

“We will review this message and look forward to engaging in constructively,” said the spokesman.

Conservatives often complain that they are subject to censorship or treat them in an unfair way by digital platforms, including Gmail. In 2023, the Federal Elections Committee A complaint from Republicans rejected On Gmail Random Films, Federal Court as well Rejection of a lawsuit against RNC with similar complaints. (RNC appears to be Reviving this lawsuit))

Earlier this month, a federal judge FTC’s investigation into the media matters of the left group On her research on anti -Semitic content on X, describing the investigation as a “revenge work”.