Swinging the Vote?

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/wheres-my-email

by tombrossman • 6 years ago

20 8 6 years ago

It's just an algorithm. Not a big conspiracy. You can definitely influence in which folder you end up. Seems like Buttigieg's team has done a better job at it.

rrtthu• 6 years ago

Sure, however this is the kind of cases where "the system" (democracy) would benefit from an equal treatment of all, regardless of their capacity to game gmail.

cpr• 6 years ago

Oh, yes? Pete B is clearly the cabal candidate, so why not assume it's part of the conspiracy?

Google has clearly lied (based on the blacklists that whistleblowers have released) about their political bias.

soared• 6 years ago

I’d imagine this is almost entirely due to scale - Yang probably sends each email to <100k users while Warren/Bloomberg have 25MM+ list sizes.

Typically an email sent to 25 million people is less important than one sent to 100k, and so should be sent to promotions.

jorams• 6 years ago

I doubt that. 100k is already very, very far into the range of likely promotion.

zeveb• 6 years ago

I would prefer to send them all to a Politics inbox, to be honest.

__tk__• 6 years ago

I think Alex Stamos' take on this is pretty good: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1232687398250639361?s=...

bjourne• 6 years ago

People who want to trash this study with the same old "Have they thought of $obvious_counterargument?" should first browse through their GitHub repo: https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-wheres-my-email

I did and I have gone through the mbox files and I cannot find anything that would explain the curious difference. That is not to say that there isn't a rational explanation, the probably is, but please give the study authors some credit. They aren't dumb.

Swinging the Vote?

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