A federal court has dismissed the Republican National Committee (RNC) lawsuit accusing Google of being biased against Republicans and reflecting this by marking RNC emails as spam. There are legitimate reasons why Gmail filters may have considered the emails spam and insufficient evidence to suggest the company acted out of deliberate bias or in bad faith.
The suit was filed in 2022, with the RNC accusing Google of intentionally or negligently “discriminating” against Republicans and attempting “to secretly suppress the political speech and income of one major political party.” Google alleged that it did no such thing, and any increase in RNC emails being marked as spam was likely the result of things like users marking them as spam, emails being sent too frequently, or issues with the RNC’s domain authentication.
In a ruling last week, U.S. District Judge Daniel Calabretta said it was a “close case” but the RNC hadn’t “sufficiently pled that Google acted in bad faith.”
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