The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against Google over Gmail's spam filtering

The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against Google over Gmail’s spam filtering

The complaint comes after Google established a contentious initiative to please Republican legislators worried about the company’s screening tactics. Following research that revealed Gmail was more likely than rival email clients to filter emails from Republican campaigns, the firm said in June that it will collaborate with the Federal Election Commission to develop a system to prevent political communications from ending up in spam folders. The compromise came after Republican legislators sponsored legislation that would prohibit email providers from employing algorithms to automatically route campaign communications.