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Google's Gmail censorship cost GOP candidates $2B since 2019, Republicans say, citing new study
Study found that Gmail f**gged most GOP fundraising emails as spam, while allowing through most Dem emails
By Peter Hasson Fox News
Published April 13, 2022 6:32am EDT

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FIRST ON FOX: Google's Gmail cost Republican candidates over $2 billion in donations since 2019 by f**gging most fundraising emails as spam, according to research shared exclusively with Fox News Digital by the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, National Republican Senate Committee.

The Republicans based their conclusions on a North Carolina State University study that found Gmail allows the vast majority of emails from Democratic to land in the user's inbox while more than two-thirds of messages from conservative candidates are marked as spam.

Gmail "retained the majority of left-wing candidate emails in inbox (< 10.12% marked as spam) while sent the majority of right-wing candidate emails to the spam folder (up to 77.2% marked as spam)," the study found.

Gmail biased
A new study found that Google’s Gmail favors liberal politician candidates, allowing emails from most left-wing politicians to land in the user’s inbox while more than 75% of messages from conservative candidates are marked as spam.

"Big Tech has been silencing conservative voices and actively working against Republicans for multiple cycles. Google’s e-mail suppression – which affects the GOP’s fundraising and GOTV efforts – is another egregious example. Silicon Valley oligarchs are suppressing free political speech." – RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, NRSC Chairman Senator Rick Scott and NRCC Chairman Congressman Tom Emmer said in a joint statement.

Ronna McDaniel
Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, accused Google of "actively working against Republicans for multiple cycles." (Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Google rejects the study's findings.

"Political affiliation has absolutely no bearing on mail classifications in Gmail and we've debunked this suggestion, which has surfaced periodically from across the political spectrum, for many years," a Google spokesperson previously told Fox News Digital after the study's release.

"Mail classifications in Gmail automatically adjust to match Gmail users' preferences and actions. Gmail users can move messages to spam, or to any other category," the Google spokesperson continued. "Gmail automatically adjusts the classifications of particular emails according to these user actions."

Conservative candidates raised $737 million on Republican fundraising platform WinRed from Gmail users in 2019 and 2020. Because, according to the study, just 32% of fundraising emails were delivered, the Republicans estimate they missed out on $1.5 billion in contributions during the 2020 e******n cycle.

So far during the 2021-2022 e******n cycle, Republicans have raised $249 million from Gmail users. The GOP committees estimate that their candidates have therefore missed out on $529 million in contributions due to Gmail's filtering algorithms.

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‘Silent Donation’: Corporate Emails Reveal Google Executives’ Efforts to Turn Out Latino V**ers Who They Thought Would V**e for Clinton
Sep 2018 Washington, D.C.9,468
An email chain among senior Google executives from the day after the 2016 p**********l e******n reveals the company tried to influence the 2016 United States p**********l e******n on behalf of one candidate, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In the emails, a Google executive describes efforts to pay for free rides for a certain sect of the population to the polls–a get-out-the-v**e for Hispanic v**ers operation–and how these efforts were because she thought it would help Hillary Clinton win the general e******n in 2016. She also used the term “silent donation” to describe Google’s contribution to the effort to elect Clinton president.

The main email, headlined, “E******n results and the Latino v**e,” was sent on Nov. 9, 2016—the day after Clinton’s loss to Trump in the 2016 p**********l e******n—by Eliana Murillo, Google’s Multicultural Marketing department head.

The four page email begins with Murillo claiming she and others at Google were engaged in non-partisan activities not designed to help any one candidate or another—only to undercut her own commentary in later passages in the emails by openly admitting the entire effort to boost Latino turnout using Google products with official company resources was to elect Clinton over Trump.

The critical miscalculation, Murillo wrote in a stunning admission in the email, was that Latino v**ers backed Trump by higher margins than any experts had forecast in the lead-up to the e******n. Trump’s 29 percent among Hispanics nationally blew prognosticators away, and he hit even higher numbers—about 31 percent—in the key battleground state of Florida, Murillo admitted.

Murillo wrote at the outset of the lengthy message:

We worked very hard. Many people did. We pushed tp get out the Latino v**e with our features, our partners, and our voices. We kept our Google efforts non-partisan and followed our company’s protocols for the e******ns strategy. We emphasized our mission to give Latinos access to information so that they can make an informed decision at the polls, and we feel very grateful for all the support to do this important work. Latinos v**ed in record-breaking numbers, particularly with early v**es. A large percentage of Latino v**ers in Florida were new v**ers who had become citizens just in time to v**e. We saw high traffic for the search queries ‘votar,’ ‘como votar,’ and ‘donde v**er,’ in key states like Florida and Nevada. We will be pulling in more info in the coming hours/days but so far we definitely know there was high traffic on search in Spanish. Without t***slating our tools the users wouldn’t have found the information they needed. Objectively speaking, our goal was met — we pushed and successfully launched the search features in Spanish, and we thank Lisa for her support in advocating for this work. I sent Philipp a note yesterday to thank him because he and others voiced their support for this too, and we greatly appreciate it. Even Sundar gave the effort a shout out and a comment in Spanish, which was really special.

“Sundar” presumably refers to Google’s chief executive officer Sundar Pichai, who took the reins of the massive search giant in October 2015. “Lisa” presumably refers to Lisa Gevelber, the vice president of Global Marketing for Google—who forwarded Murillo’s entire four-page email to several other Google executives in another chain also obtained by Breitbart News in which Gevelber praises Murillo’s activities with official company resources as having made a “great difference.” “Philipp” presumably refers to Philipp Schindler, a senior vice president and Google’s chief business officer per his LinkedIn page.

The emails were first revealed on Fox News on Monday evening on Tucker Carlson Tonight by anchor Tucker Carlson in a special report. Breitbart News also obtained them, and has reached out to Google with a number of questions about the emails.

Carlson, in his exclusive report on Fox News Monday night, compared the revelations in the Google emails to the probe of Russian interference in the U.S. e******n to Special Counsel Robert Mueller—raising the question about how much influence tech giants like Google and Facebook have on e******n outcomes in the United States.

Carlson cited Dr. Robert Epstein, a social scientist and an expert on Google, who has said, in Carlson’s words, “Google alone could determine the outcome of almost any e******n just by altering its search se******ns and we would never know it.”

Epstein has published research detailing how Google could influence the results of U.S. e******ns. Breitbart News has exclusively published several of Epstein’s reports, including a recent one showing that Google search manipulation can swing huge swaths of v**ers.

In his report on Monday night, Carlson then described the emails he obtained, which Breitbart News also obtained. Carlson said:

This wasn’t a get-out-the-v**e effort or wh**ever they say. It wasn’t aimed at all potential v**ers. It wasn’t even aimed at a balanced cross-section of subgroups. Google didn’t try to get out the v**e among say Christian Arabs in Michigan or say Persian Jews in Los Angeles—they sometimes v**e Republican. It was aimed only at one group, a group that Google cynically assumed would v**e exclusively for the Democratic Party. Furthermore, this mobilization effort targeted not only the entire country but swing states vital to the Hillary campaign. This was not an exercise in civics, this was political consulting. It was in effect an in-kind contribution to the Hillary Clinton campaign.”

Carlson noted that in communication with Google, the company “did not deny that the email was real or that it showed a clear political preference.”

“Their only defense was that the activities they described were either non-partisan or were not officially taken by the company,” Carlson said Monday night, describing Google’s official response to his requests for comment, before challenging the company’s response: “But of course they were both. Plenty of people in Google knew what was going on and we haven’t seen any evidence anyone at Google disapproved of it and tried to rein it in.”

The email from Murillo continues by explaining just how expansive the efforts the company undertook to achieve its objective were:

We had our partners help spread the word about our features on social media, including YouTubers and influencers like Dulce Candy, Jorge Narvaez, Jessie y Joy, Barbara Bermudo, and Pamela Silva of Univision, Jackie Cruz aka La Flaca from Orange is the New Black, and more. We promoted our partner the Latino Community Foundation’s non-partisan #YoVoyaVotaryTu (I’m going to v**e, are you?) campaign and leveraged our social media influencer friends’ reach to hit over 11M impressions with that hashtag. We hosted an event with over 200 people and a hangout with social media influencers about the power of the Latino v**e and the new research Nielsen published about the Latino e*****rate. This reached 4.4M social media impressions and signaled to many that Google and our partners value the Latino community and our role in this e******n. We brought the same research to the LATISM conference, where people were beyond thrilled to see Google’s support and acknowledgment of the Latino community.

If Murillo had ended her email there, this probably would not amount to the level of a national news story. But she did not: She went on for another several paragraphs on the first page and an extra three pages to admit the openly partisan intent of Google’s actions, including a remarkable in-writing confirmation that at least one of Google’s actions amounted to a “silent donation”—something that could raise Federal E******n Commission (FEC) red f**gs if authorities decide to launch an official investigation into this matter, now that these emails have been publicly revealed.

It is in the next paragraph that Murillo openly admits that Google made a “silent donation,” in her words, paying for rides to polls via l*****t organization Voto Latino. Murillo wrote in the next paragraph:

We also supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states (silent donation). We even helped them create ad campaigns to promote the rides (with support from HOLA folks who rallied and volunteered their time to help). We supported Voto Latino to help them land an interview with Senator Meza of Arizona (key state for us) to talk about the e******n and how to use Google search to find information about how to v**e. They were a strong partner, among many in this effort.

The next paragraph is where Murillo begins to make her next major admission: that the effort was not just to increase v**er turnout generally but to elect Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.

“Ultimately, after all was said and done, the Latino community did come out to v**e, and completely surprised us,” Murillo wrote. “We never anticipated that 29% of Latinos would v**e for Trump. No one did. We saw headlines like this about early v**er turn out and thought that this was finally the year that the ‘sleeping giant’ had awoken.”

On the next page, the email continues with a headline from an article in The Atlantic by James Fallows: “2016: The Year Latinos Saved America?”

Under that was a tweet from Jon Ralston of Ralston Reports in Nevada saying, among other things, that “Trump is dead” because of Latino turnout in early v****g in the state. Trump did not end up winning Nevada in the end, but he did beat Clinton in 30 and a half other states.

At that point, after the Ralston tweet, Murillo openly admits the partisan motives of Google’s e******neering efforts.

“On personal note, we really thought we had shown up to demonstrate our political power against a candidate who had vehemently offended our community by calling us rapists and drug dealers,” Murillo wrote. “We read the headline and thought WOW, we did it!”

Murillo’s email continues by including another headline, this time from the New Yorker’s Benjamin Wallace-Wells: “Latino V**ers Show Trump What It Means to Be American.” That piece was written on Nov. 7, 2016, the day before the e******n.

Then she begins writing again: “But then reality set in. Only 71% of Latinos v**ed for Hillary, and that wasn’t enough.”

The third page of the email begins with another headline and image of a Latina woman in a red Make America Great Again hat and “Latinos for Trump” sign. The story, from Ruben Navarette, Jr., published in the Daily Beast, is headlined: “Why the Latino V**e Didn’t Save America.” The sub-headline, “Hispanic v**ers were supposed to be one of Clinton’s blue firewalls—but one in three ended up splitting for Trump,” is also included in Murillo’s Google email.

From there, Murillo continues writing for another page and a half:

The v**ers we wanted to reach did end up having an influence in the end, most notably in Florida. Latino v**ers v**ed for Trump more in Florida than in other states (31%), and FL was critical by popular v**e and the e*******l college. We’ll keep an eye on any other results that can show us the influence that our efforts had on the e******n. We know we gave this our best and are now figuring out what comes next. Thanks again for all your help and support in this effort.

In the next paragraph, Murillo again openly admits she was not “objective” when it came to the e******n.

“I have tried to stay objective, but I ask that you please give us some time to pause and reflect,” Murillo wrote. “This is devastating for our Democratic Latino community. After all these efforts and what we thought was positive momentum toward change, the results are not what we expected at all. We are afraid for our families, and especially for the millions of immigrants who now don’t know what the future holds for them.”

After that, Murillo says she cannot communicate with key organizers of the effort by Google and its partners—a project known as HOLA—because she is afraid of secret pro-Trump spies on the listservs created. She also admits ongoing discussions among these people about meeting to give grieving Hillary Clinton supporters hugs after Trump crushed her on e******n day. She also says those involved in Google’s get-out-the-v**e efforts were openly seeking consolation after Clinton lost, and that she and another person cried after T***p w*n – for the first time they have cried due to an e******n result. Murillo wrote:

What’s most difficult for us is we can’t even email the HOLA list to reach our community and discuss what this means for us because we know that apparently some may actually be Trump supporters. There is a thread right now among the core HOLA group where people are sharing how much they hurt, how much they need support right now, and that they are coordinating in different offices to meet up to just hold each other. One in a remote office said ‘If you guys do any sort of meetings, I’d love to join virtually. I think I’m currently the only Latinx in my office. It’s kinda hard.’ #understatement. Another said, ‘I’ve never cried after an e******n until last night.’ Same here.

She was not done there. In the next paragraph, Murillo wrote that this e******n result hurt her badly. She also admits the e******n result was a “loss,” another indication that Google’s efforts were clearly attempting to use company resources to elect Democrat Clinton over Republican Trump and influence the results of the e******n. She also says that the company—and herself in particular—will redouble efforts in the future to get a different and more desired result in future e******ns.

“I’m in shock and it hurts more than I could have ever imagined, but trying to stay optimistic and keep my head high,” Murillo wrote. “Loss is a part of life, and I do think frustrations challenge us to work smarter and get creative. My partners have sent notes and are saying the same thing — time to keep working harder.”

At the top of the fourth page of the email, Murillo asks her colleagues at Google to give out a “smile” to grieving l*****t Latinos who work at the company.

“If you see a Latino Googler in the office (California/New York), please give them a smile,” Murillo wrote. “They are probably hurting right now. It’s tough to handle now that we know not all of us were against this, so we may be even more divided than ever. At least in CA/NY though, you can rest assured that the Latinos of these blue states need your thoughts and prayers, at least for them and their families.”

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Then, she continues by stating she is going on a planned vacation she thought she was taking to “celebrate” a Clinton win, but after T***p w*n, she says, her vacation “will be time to reflect on how to continue to support my community through these difficult times.”

Murillo, in the next line, reveals that she thought she was sharing her viewpoints on these matters in a tight circle that would not leak.

“I’m not sharing my personal opinions very broadly, but wanted to share openly here in the circle of trust,” she wrote.

This email leaked to Fox News and Breitbart News and is now likely to become a centerpiece in the case that Google is throwing its weight around to interfere in e******ns in the United States in a partisan manner against the duly elected President of the United States.

This email from Murillo was not just from some rogue staffer inside Google. Her original email was forwarded on to other Google executives by the aforementioned Gevelber, according to another email obtained by Breitbart News.

“Thought you all would want to read this,” Gevelber wrote in her own message endorsing Murillo’s email in a message to other Google bigwigs. “It’s from Eliana Murillo who runs US Hispanic Marketing on my team and who helped found HOLA our Hispanic ERC.”

Gevelber continued by commending everyone she said, “worked so hard to ensure all the Get out the V**e were done in Spanish” that their efforts “made a giant difference” in the e******n “to Googlers and beyond.”

President Trump and Republicans have just begun scratching the surface of bias against them among Silicon Valley’s elite, including, perhaps foremost alongside Facebook, from Google. A source close to the White House who has reviewed these emails ahead of their public release told Breitbart News that in a just world this would amount to, at a minimum, a clear violation of campaign finance law governing in-kind contributions to campaigns and causes.

“How is this any different than Michael Cohen’s alleged conduct?” the source close to the White House told Breitbart News. “Did Google disclose their contribution? No, they didn’t. I guess Bob Mueller is too busy chasing extortionist porn star fairy tales to do anything about it.”

Technically, this would not fall into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s wheelhouse, but if authorities do end up investigating, it would more likely come from the Justice Department generally speaking or any number of federal agencies like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or Federal E******n Commission (FEC). It remains to be seen where this goes from here.

“The views expressed in this email are the employee’s personal political views and are not representative of any official stance from the company,” a Google spokesperson told Breitbart News. “Google’s e******ns efforts — both in 2016 and leading up to this year’s midterms — have been entirely nonpartisan. We will continue to use our products in an informative, nonpartisan way to engage v**ers leading up to November’s e******n.”

But it may not matter what the company’s official spokesperson says now about these damning emails, as at least one other Google executive f**gged the original email for company executives, warning that Murillo’s email demonstrates just how “partisan” her work with official company resources was.

“Forwarding this not because of the original sender but rather how explicitly it references that her work was 100% partisan,” Google Search Product Marketing official Mackenzie Thomas wrote in another company email.

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Oh Bloody Hell !!!
Always the victims .
Is there more to this story. !
As in
Where did all of the money go. ?

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Knock knock knock. Wake up.

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41 Times Google Has Interfered in US E******ns Since 2008