Google has denied the recent allegations of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that the tech company’s administration of its Gmail service favors Democrats’ emails over Republican content.
On Aug. 28, FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson wrote a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai alleging that the tech giant was potentially violating an FTC rule when its Gmail service used a “partisan approach” while administering spam filters.
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, “may be engaging in unfair or deceptive acts” when it prefers messages coming from Democrats, Ferguson wrote. Gmail allegedly “routinely” blocks GOP emails from getting delivered compared with similar messages from Democrats, Ferguson said, citing media reports….
Google Rebuffs FTC Complaint Regarding ‘Partisan’ Gmail Spam Filters
