Google has denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent allegations of the tech company’s partisan administration of its Gmail service in favor of Democratic emails over Republican content.
On Aug. 28, FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson wrote a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai alleging that the tech giant was potentially violating an FTC rule when its Gmail service used a “partisan approach” while administering spam filters.
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, “may be engaging in unfair or deceptive acts” when it prefers messages coming from Republican senders, Ferguson said. Gmail allegedly “routinely” blocks GOP emails from getting delivered compared to similar messages from Democrats, said Ferguson, citing media reports….