Gmail started a test to prevent political campaign mail from being treated as spam

Google's email service 'Gmail' automatically judges spam and suspicious emails and automatically sorts them into a 'spam folder' that is separate from the normal inbox folder. Trouble has also occurred, such as important emails being treated as spam , and lawmakers protesting that Google is treating campaign emails for donations as spam . Under pressure from political parties, Google will launch a pilot program to prevent emails containing political campaigns from being sent to spam folders, news site Axios reports.

Exclusive: Gmail launches pilot to keep campaign emails out of spam
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In June 2022, in response to a survey that Google recognized an unreasonably high percentage of US Republican Party campaign emails as ``spam,'' Google took special measures not to recognize emails sent from specific political organizations as spam. was reported to have been established. After that, Google objected to the study that ``emails from the Republican Party are likely to be recognized as spam,'' saying, ``We do not filter emails based on political affiliation,'' but ``Google is conservative. It resulted in succumbing to sectarian pressure,” said Axios.

Report that Google has set up a ``special measure'' to exclude emails sent from political organizations from automatic spam detection-GIGAZINE

Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said, 'We plan to start testing our spam filters with a small number of campaigns from both right and left parties. We will test it and give senders more certainty during the election period,” he told Axios.

Castaneda said Gmail will continue to scan messages for phishing and malware, while political campaigns enrolled in the pilot program will not be subject to Google's standard form of spam detection. Users who receive promotional emails can choose what to do with them through a banner asking them to continue viewing the message, unsubscribe, or report it as spam. “As the trial program progresses, we will listen to and respond to feedback,” Castaneda explained. “A prominent unsubscribe button will give users control during the trial.”

Google's pilot program to keep political campaign emails out of spam is expected to begin at the end of September, after it receives approval from the Federal Election Commission .