{"id":440597,"date":"2022-05-02T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/big-tech-does-it-again-gmail-favors-democratic-candidates\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T02:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T23:00:45","slug":"big-tech-does-it-again-gmail-favors-democratic-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-tech-does-it-again-gmail-favors-democratic-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"#Big Tech does it again &#8212; Gmail favors Democratic candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e57d29278f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e57d29278f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-tech-does-it-again-gmail-favors-democratic-candidates\/#%E2%80%9CBig_Tech_does_it_again_%E2%80%94_Gmail_favors_Democratic_candidates%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Big Tech does it again &#8212; Gmail favors Democratic candidates&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBig_Tech_does_it_again_%E2%80%94_Gmail_favors_Democratic_candidates%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Big Tech does it again &#8212; Gmail favors Democratic candidates&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/google.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In yet another sign of Big Tech bias, it turns out Google\u2019s Gmail program leans strongly Democratic \u2014 automatically sending Republican fund-raising mail to users\u2019 spam folders far more often than the Democratic ones in the runup to the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> comes courtesy of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2203.16743.pdf\">North Carolina State computer-science researchers<\/a>, who examined 318,000 emails from May through November 2020 and evaluated Outlook and Yahoo accounts as well as Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>As the Republican National Committee sums it up in its complaint to the Federal Election Commission, the Gmail algorithm sent GOP fundraising e-mails to spam at a rate 820% higher than Dem ones. The study puts it less shockingly: Nearly seven in 10 Republican messages auto-spammed, vs. less than one in 10 Democratic ones.<\/p>\n<p>The other programs\u2019 bias favored <em>GOP<\/em> e-mails, but by much narrower margins. And vastly more Americans use Gmail for their personal correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC estimates it lost $1.5 <em>billion<\/em> in donations as a result, a loss of resources that certainly could have shifted, say, the Georgia runoffs that handed control of the Senate to the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Was it intentional? Only Google\u2019s engineers know for sure. The same issue is why Elon Musk wants to make <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u2019s \u201ccensorship\u201d algorithms open-source, so that any qualified outsider can flag issues.<\/p>\n<p>As we noted last week, it\u2019s long past time that the tech firms who wield such vast power over our discourse \u201copen up their black boxes so we can all see what is really going on inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nation needs transparency from Big Tech.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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