RNC suing Google for sending marketing campaign emails to spam

The Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit in opposition to Google on Friday, accusing the media big of deliberately sending its marketing campaign emails to spam.

“This case is a few market-dominating media firm that unlawfully discriminated in opposition to the Republican Nationwide Committee… by tailoring its e mail messages due to the RNC’s political beliefs and events. ,” the petition reads.

RNC claims that Google has been sending its marketing campaign and fundraising emails to spam for 10 months and the corporate ignored requests to debate the problem, regardless of having beforehand labored with RNC to resolve the problems. spam filter.

“Google’s most extreme filtering interval is especially horrifying,” reads the lawsuit, alleging that Google filters “almost all” emails despatched by the RNC for spam on the finish of the month, which can be a helpful fundraising time. for the committee.

In discussions between Google and the committee, “each rationalization was rejected and each answer failed,” RNC attorneys stated.

“The one cheap inference is that Google is deliberately sending vital RNC emails to the spam folder as a result of the RNC sends them,” the lawsuit says.

Hill has reached out to Google for touch upon the RNC lawsuit.