RNC lawsuit claiming Google email spam filters harmed fundraising rejected by US Appeals Court

RNC lawsuit claiming Google email spam filters harmed fundraising rejected by US Appeals Court

The Republican National Committee lost its appeal that sought to reinstate a lawsuit accusing Alphabet’s Google of deliberately misdirecting the political party’s email messages to users’ spam folders

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Republican National Committee (RNC) lawsuit claiming Google email spam filters harmed fundraising. According to the RNC lawsuit, Google intentionally/neglectfully sent RNC fundraising emails to Gmail users’ spam folders for

The lawsuit alleged that Google intentionally or negligently sent RNC fundraising emails to Gmail users' spam folders for biased reasons and cost the group hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential donations.

The RNC issued a statement that it disagreed with the court’s order and was evaluating its options and ‘remained committed to protecting Americans’ First Amendment rights from discriminatory treatment by Big Tech.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Google has refuted that its systems divert email to spam based on political or other viewpoints. It said email is routed to spam filters based on internal algorithms which are trained by user action and other factors.

As per the RNC however, the diversion lasted for nine months from late 2021 to 2022 and applied to millions of its emails.