Political fundraising emails are notoriously a mix of over-exaggerations, routine misrepresentations and ALL CAP PLEAS. Relief is not on the way. The Federal Election Commission, the nation’s chief ...

The Federal Election Commission greenlighted Google's controversial pilot program, which could mean a flood of spam in your inbox this election cycle. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News ...

The US Federal Election Commission approved a Google plan on Thursday to let campaign emails bypass Gmail spam filters. The FEC’s advisory opinion adopted in a 4-1 vote said Gmail’s pilot program is ...

Gmail users are getting new tools to opt out of a political email test program. Developers whipped up a "more prominent unsubscribe button" to offset spam filter changes. MAGA stoked the reevaluation ...

The Federal Election Commission on Thursday advised Google that a proposed pilot program allowing political campaigns to evade automated spam detection would not violate federal campaign finance law.

Google plans to discontinue a pilot program that allows political campaigns to evade its email spam filters, the latest round in the technology giant’s tussle with the GOP over online fundraising. The ...

Google has just decided to end a pilot program that perhaps may have given political campaigns an edge — as long as they signed up to be part of it. The pilot, which started in 2022, was Google's ...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming that Google violated US law by using Gmail’s spam filter on Republican campaign emails.

Political campaigns can register to allow emails to bypass Gmail spam filters as part of a Google pilot program, the tech company said Tuesday. Google is starting with a “small number of campaigns” ...

Bulk e-mailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick, experts said this week. The ...

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...