{"id":1099876,"date":"2023-01-25T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1099876"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:24:10","slug":"rnc-sued-google-for-filtering-spam-but-never-used-gmail-tool-that-bypasses-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1099876","title":{"rendered":"RNC sued Google for filtering spam but never used Gmail tool that bypasses filter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/getty-spam-800x523-1.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of an envelope stamped with the word \" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/getty-spam.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1132\" data-width=\"1731\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | pagadesign)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Google is ending a pilot program that let political emails bypass the Gmail spam filter, and it says it hasn&#8217;t decided whether to convert the pilot into a more long-term option for political campaigns. The Republican National Committee (RNC) <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/10\/republicans-sue-google-to-stop-gmail-from-marking-campaign-messages-as-spam\/\">sued Google<\/a> in October 2022 over its spam-filtering practices but never participated in the pilot program, Google said Monday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.caed.418528\/gov.uscourts.caed.418528.30.0.pdf\">motion to dismiss<\/a> the RNC&#8217;s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pilot Program was made available to all eligible participants on a non-partisan basis&#8221; and &#8220;is scheduled to run through January 31, 2023,&#8221; Google&#8217;s court filing said.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Election Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/08\/us-approves-google-plan-to-let-political-emails-bypass-gmail-spam-filter\/\">approved Google&#8217;s pilot program<\/a> in August 2022 amid Republican claims of Google bias. &#8220;As the Complaint makes clear, the RNC has chosen not to participate in Google&#8217;s FEC-approved Pilot Program,&#8221; Google&#8217;s motion to dismiss said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1912471#p3\">Read 7 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1912471&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1912471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RNC sued Google for filtering spam but never used Gmail tool that bypasses filter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | pagadesign) Google is ending a pilot program that let political emails bypass the Gmail spam filter, and it says it hasn&#8217;t decided whether to convert the pilot into a more long-term option for political campaigns. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1099876\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1099876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}