Google sued in the US

In its antitrust complaint, the US government states that Google has used anti-competitive measures to suppress threats to its dominance of digital advertising technology.

Accordingly, Google has removed millions of emails that the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the US sent to potential donors and supporters during key moments such as campaign fundraising and building. community building, move this committee’s emails (emails) to the user’s spam folder.

According to a lawsuit filed in California court, the RNC alleges that Google discriminated against the commission by moving emails to the spam folder “because of the RNC’s political connections and views.”

Eight US states have joined the US Department of Justice in this Google case, including the state of California, where Google is founded.

This is the second time the US Department of Justice has sued Google. The previous lawsuit in 2020 focused on Google’s monopoly in the search field and is expected to go to trial next September.

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Previously, in October 2022, Google was also sued in the US. In the lawsuit, the RNC alleges that Google removed millions of emails RNC sent to potential donors and supporters during key moments like campaign fundraising and community building.

Google has denied the allegation. Google spokesman José Castañeda confirmed that Google does not filter emails based on political affiliation. Gmail’s spam filtering only reflects user behavior.

Mr. Castañeda stated that Google has provided guidance on election campaigns. Google recently launched a pilot program approved by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on political senders and will continue to optimize email delivery in addition to minimizing email messages. trash.

Spam filtering on email services often removes unwanted messages and moves them to a separate folder. RNC asserted, for nearly a month, almost all of this committee’s emails were in users’ inboxes, but by the end of the month, a crucial time for fundraising, almost all of these emails were lost. located in the junk folder.

In the past, the end of the month was the most successful time for RNC to raise funds. The RNC states that this discrimination has been going on for about 10 months. According to RNC, the fact that their emails were moved to the spam folder caused their revenue to drop sharply in the context of the US midterm congressional elections approaching at that time.