Gabbard noted recent reports that Google’s Gmail regularly favors Democratic political campaign emails over GOP political campaign emails, marking 67.6 percent of right-leaning candidates’ emails as spam and just 8.2 percent of left-leaning candidates’ emails as spam. MRC Free Speech America has released several stories this year covering Gmail’s political email practices.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard lambasted Google for directly interfering with American elections, and warned that Americans should be fully aware of the extent of tech giant’s meddling.
“People need to know how much power a monopoly like Google has on directly influencing and interfering in our elections,” Gabbard said during an appearance Wednesday on retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink’s Jocko Podcast.
Gabbard spoke about how her campaign set up Google AdSense accounts in the early days of her presidential run in 2019 to prominently promote her campaign website in search results. She said she was the most searched candidate the night after the first Democratic primary debate in June 2019. “All of a sudden, our Google ad account was suspended with no explanation, no notice, no message,” she said on the podcast. “Literally nothing. Just crickets.”
The suspension continued for a period of time after Gabbard’s team asked Google why her account was suspended when it had followed all the rules in setting it up. Google reportedly didn’t respond to the campaign’s inquiry for awhile.
“All of a sudden the suspension was taken off the account,” she said.
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