Google has long been accused of censorship, from manipulating its search engines to de-prioritize conservative news websites and content to coordinating with Apple to remove conservative apps from its store.
Now, the Republican National Committee is suing Google for labeling millions of its get-out-the-vote emails as spam, resulting in significant financial loss to the RNC.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in a California federal court, claims that the party’s email analytics programs have documented a 10-month pattern of email suppression toward the end of each month, “historically when the RNC’s fundraising is most successful,” the suit complains.
“Enough is enough,” RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted. “The RNC has sued Google for their blatant bias against us.”
“It doesn’t matter whether the email is about donating, voting, or community outreach,” the suit maintained, noting that electronic communication with supporters is a “crucial conduit” for the party.
“Google’s conduct has caused the RNC to lose its ability to communicate voting information and other political messaging to its supporters during the critical midterm elections,” the party claimed, as well as potentially millions of dollars of donations. “This harm is irreparable and must be stopped.”
Google is claiming that it does not consider political affiliation when sorting emails into spam folders.
