It's not well known that the (US) CAN-SPAM act does not apply to political and religious organizations. They can spam as much as they want.
First amendment law is full of surprises.
First amendment law is full of surprises.
This is because the politicians in office at the time of writing the "CAN-SPAM" act explicitly wrote in their own exemption for themselves for campaigning purposes. As to why religious orgs. also got included, I don't remember -- one wonders if it was simply to obscure the blatant "we are making ourselves above this law" look for exempting themselves from the law.
They (the politicians that time) did the same thing with the "Do Not Call" phone number list, politicians wrote in their own exemption for themselves for campaigning purposes, and then added an exemption for charity orgs. to the law as well.
"Republican congressman Greg Steube asks Google CEO why his campaign emails are going to spam"
https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/jul/29/republi...
That’s an interesting non-denial: he never actually says the spam algorithm isn’t biased against conservatives. There could well be a bias, because many ML systems have unintended biases. Google could easily answer the question. It’d probably take an hour max to write and run the mapreduce or whatever they use now.
It should not be ironic, because Google has a history of seeing itself above any flaws, and as the Arbiter of Truth