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FTC chair alleges partisan filtering by Gmail; Google says spam filters not ideological
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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I hate Google as much as the next guy, but their response is dead on. If millions of real people are marking the same thing as spam, then the algorithms are forced to identify that thing as spam.