Google, which has been under fire for allegations that its algorithms unfairly target conservative content, has been sued by the Republican National Committee (RNC) for allegedly routing the organization’s political campaign emails to spam.
The RNC said in a complaint filed on Oct. 21 (pdf) that Google had filtered millions of the organization’s fundraising and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) emails to the spam folders of potential donors and supporters, trashing the communications at pivotal moments during election fundraising to do the most damage.
“The timing of Google’s most egregious filtering is particularly damning,” the complaint states, alleging that Google sends nearly all of the RNC’s fundraising emails to spam around the end of the month, when its fundraising efforts are typically most successful….