Republicans have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the tech conglomerate Google for censorship and email suppression.
In a joint formal letter to FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson released on Wednesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) said that Google has engaged in “Big Tech suppression of conservative speech,” attesting that emails sent to their supporters were immediately sent to “spam folders.”
“In recent election cycles, the national party committees had a substantial number of the emails we send to our supporters routed to the recipients’ spam folders where they are never viewed,” the letter said. “This problem is particularly evident when the committees attempt to send emails to users of Google’s Gmail service, which routinely delivers fewer emails to inboxes than do other email service providers.”
