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Lawsuit Reveals Alleged Crime Stat Manipulation in DC plus GOP Fundraising Emails Flagged as Spam · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ninety one percent of Washington residents say crime is a
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  Speaker 1: problem ninety one percent, fifty one percent it is an
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  Speaker 1: extremely serious problem.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. So nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update. And here are the
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  Speaker 3: two big stories we're covering today. Donald Trump accusing the
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  Speaker 3: District of Columbia of fudging the crime stat to make
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  Speaker 3: it look like the city is much safer than it
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  Speaker 3: actually is. And there's even a lawsuit involved in this
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  Speaker 3: that was settled by a former member of the police department.
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  Speaker 3: I've got all the details for you in just a second. Also,
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  Speaker 3: Google yet again busted, this time making sure that emails
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  Speaker 3: causes are going to your spam account and democratic emails
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  Speaker 3: they show right up at the top of your list.
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  Speaker 3: How are they getting away with it? And how long
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump on Thursday accused the District of Columbia
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  Speaker 3: and its leaders of changing crime statistics on purpose to
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  Speaker 3: make it look like the city was actually getting safer,
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  Speaker 3: when in reality it was not. Trump talking to reporters
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  Speaker 3: that White House said, sadly, what I guess the mayor did,
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  Speaker 3: or whoever it was, They asked that the numbers would
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  Speaker 3: be fudge so that it would show less crime than
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  Speaker 3: the actual fact of what was happening. Trump has been criticized,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, by the DC mayor, Bowser and National
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Party leaders for deploying the National Guard troops to
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  Speaker 3: ThEC to help turn crime around and bring greater security
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  Speaker 3: to the Capital area. Trump told reporters Thursday that quote,
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  Speaker 3: we will have crime under control very shortly in DC.
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  Speaker 3: The President said he would fix a DC crime problem,
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  Speaker 3: just like he's done with the southern border, saying, the
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  Speaker 3: fact is it's worse than it's ever been, and we
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  Speaker 3: will have it just like we did at the border,
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  Speaker 3: where the borders are totally in great shape now the
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  Speaker 3: best ever record setting shape. Will have the crime situation
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  Speaker 3: solved in DC very very soon. Now, why did the
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  Speaker 3: President make these accusations, Well, a DC police sergeant exposed
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  Speaker 3: her superiors for misclassifying crimes on purpose to make the
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  Speaker 3: stats look like crime was getting better. The city, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, just quietly settled her lawsuit. Records revealed in
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  Speaker 3: the suit from the police sergeant, and it showed the
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  Speaker 3: department's leadership directed subordinates to file theft and violent crimes
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  Speaker 3: as lower level offenses quote unquote, and that's exactly why
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  Speaker 3: the District of Columbia quietly settled a lawsuit from that sergeant,
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  Speaker 3: who accused the Metropolitan Police Department leaders of deliberately misclassifying
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  Speaker 3: offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics. Court records obtained
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  Speaker 3: by the Washington Freebeacon now show police brass repeatedly told
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  Speaker 3: officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults
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  Speaker 3: to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and
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  Speaker 3: phone called transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed now. The former
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  Speaker 3: MPD sergeant sued the department in twenty twenty, alleging that
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  Speaker 3: police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme.
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  Speaker 3: The woman, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq,
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  Speaker 3: accused the MPD brass of attempting to quote distort crime
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  Speaker 3: statistics by downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors so
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  Speaker 3: that there would be quote fewer felonies in the statistics.
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  Speaker 3: She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed
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  Speaker 3: their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep
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  Speaker 3: them out of the crime stats that the city reports
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  Speaker 3: to the public. The lawsuit, as well as the city's
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  Speaker 3: decision to settle calls into question the prevailing narrative presented
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  Speaker 3: in mainstream media outlets as President Donald Trump carries out
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  Speaker 3: the DC crime crackdown. For example, the New York Times,
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  Speaker 3: Washington Post, and Politico have all cited data for the
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  Speaker 3: Metropolitan Police Department to contend that DC crime is low
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  Speaker 3: and Trump's crackdown is unnecessary and just a political maneuver.
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  Speaker 3: The coverage did not mentioned, by the way, the whistleblower,
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  Speaker 3: nor did it disclose that a DC police commander is
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  Speaker 3: actually currently on leave after the city's police union accused
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  Speaker 3: him of manipulating crime stats to artificially lower them. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this also goes back to the second narrative. Democrats are
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  Speaker 3: claiming that DC is safe, people are not scared. That
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  Speaker 3: is also a huge lie. In fact, even on MSNBC
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  Speaker 3: they admitted on Morning Joe that it's very clear the
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  Speaker 3: ninety one percent of people that live in Washington, the
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  Speaker 3: residence there, say that crime is a problem. Take a
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  Speaker 3: listen to Joe Scarborough being forced to tell you the
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  Speaker 3: truth on this one.
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  Speaker 1: The answer to this, this this problem for Democrats is
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  Speaker 1: not everything's okay. There's nothing to see here. Move along,
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  Speaker 1: Move along. Oh, Washington has dropped twenty four percent or
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  Speaker 1: whatever in crime. Well, let me give you some other numbers.
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  Speaker 1: The Washington Post took a poll in late April early May.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety one percent of Washington residents say crime is a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety one percent fifty one percent it is an extremely
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  Speaker 1: serious problem. And John Heilman, We've had people before put
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  Speaker 1: this in racial terms, and this is what I must say.
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  Speaker 1: This is one thing that I think Democrats have gotten
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  Speaker 1: so wrong about crime, so wrong about crime. Well, let
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  Speaker 1: me just read, let me just read the Washington Post.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 1: There are stark divides among the lines of race and
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  Speaker 1: income in the poll, with black residents and lower income
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  Speaker 1: residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents and
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  Speaker 1: those with higher incomes, as they were last year. Black
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  Speaker 1: women are among the most concerned, with sixty five percent
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  Speaker 1: saying crime is a very or extremely serious issue, compared
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  Speaker 1: with eighty two percent who said the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: There it is, folks morning, Joe Scarborough scorching Democrats on
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  Speaker 3: the DC crime denial. Ninety one percent of Washington residents
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  Speaker 3: say crime is a problem, with black residents and lower
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  Speaker 3: income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents
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  Speaker 3: and those with higher incomes. So you have to ask
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  Speaker 3: yourself this question, why are Democrats so hell bent on
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  Speaker 3: stopping Donald Trump from making Washington, DC safer? It's because
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  Speaker 3: they don't want to lose control of their cities and
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  Speaker 3: they're afraid if he's successful in this, then other cities
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  Speaker 3: around the country will demand the same outcome, and Democrats
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  Speaker 3: don't actually want to fight crime at all.
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  Speaker 2: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 3: In an election, the most important thing for any candidate
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  Speaker 3: is being able to connect with voters, and most of
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  Speaker 3: the time that is through paid advertisements or emailing or
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  Speaker 3: text messaging or social media posts that are boosted. It
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  Speaker 3: is extremely important because without reaching the electorate, it's impossible
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  Speaker 3: to actually win an election. So I want you to
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  Speaker 3: just imagine for just a moment how influential different tech
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  Speaker 3: companies are. Like Google, for example, if they decided that
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  Speaker 3: they didn't want conservative emails to make it to your
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  Speaker 3: actual email account. Instead, they decided to flag conservative emails
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  Speaker 3: to your spam account. Now, that would be an egregious
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  Speaker 3: abuse of power, right you would think that's probably even
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  Speaker 3: maybe against the law, that you're not delivering the mail
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  Speaker 3: the right way, even though it's an email knowing that
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to change or al to the outcome of
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  Speaker 3: an election. Well guess what Google caught flagging GOP fundraiser
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  Speaker 3: emails as quote unquote suspicious and then sending them directly
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  Speaker 3: to spam. A new memo is revealing. Now this is
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  Speaker 3: even more troubling because if a candidate cannot raise money,
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  Speaker 3: they cannot compete in an election, and many candidates will
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  Speaker 3: buy email lists to solicit from conservative donors or liberal
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  Speaker 3: donors if you're a Democratic candidate money because without it,
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  Speaker 3: you cannot get elected. Insert Google. Google was at it again,
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  Speaker 3: and the GOP campaign donations could be a major casualty
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  Speaker 3: of it. The search giant has been caught this summer
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  Speaker 3: flagging Republican fundraising emails as dangerous spam. That means it
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  Speaker 3: kept them from hitting Gmail users inboxes and yes, the
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  Speaker 3: majority of people in this country actually used Gmail, while
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  Speaker 3: leaving similar solicitations from Democratic emails untouched. A consulting firm
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  Speaker 3: is now warning that despite repeatedly sparking headlines and even
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  Speaker 3: lawsuits in recent years over allegedly partisan practices, Last year,
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  Speaker 3: for example, a federal judge tossed a lawsuit filed by
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  Speaker 3: the Republican National Committee. They complained of biased email filtering.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, the Federal Election Commission dismissed an
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  Speaker 3: RNC complaint alleging discrimination in Gmail's spam filters as well. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 3: Targeted Victory, whose clients include the National Republican Central Committee
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  Speaker 3: Representative Steve Scalise. Senator Marsha Blackburn, said it observed that
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  Speaker 3: the serious and troubling trend was still going on. As
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  Speaker 3: recently as June and July of this year, Gmail had
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  Speaker 3: been flagging emails containing links to the fundraising platform when read,
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  Speaker 3: and in many cases, sending them directly to spam. According
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  Speaker 3: to a copy of the memo to clients exclusively obtained
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  Speaker 3: by The New York Post, Targeted Victory by the Way
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  Speaker 3: conducted tests in which emails containing links to the democratic
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  Speaker 3: fundraising platform Act Blue were delivered consistently without issue. The
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  Speaker 3: memo includes video demonstrations of the firm's tests. If Gmail
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  Speaker 3: is allowed to quietly suppress when Red links while giving
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  Speaker 3: Act Blue a free pass, it will continue to tilt
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  Speaker 3: the playing field in ways that voters never see, but
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  Speaker 3: campaigns will fill every single day. The memo states, now
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  Speaker 3: The memo could fuel new allegations of political bias yet
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  Speaker 3: again against Google, which was accused also by Elon Muskin March,
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  Speaker 3: of interfering to help Democrats thousands of times every election season. Critics,
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  Speaker 3: including Donald Trump, have accused Google of manipulating search results
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  Speaker 3: specifically to hurt Republicans, and even of suppressing information of
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  Speaker 3: the assassination attempt against Trump last year. The company, of course,
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  Speaker 3: tonight any wrongdoing. When reached for comment on Wednesday, Google's
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  Speaker 3: spokesman said the company's email filter protections are in place
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  Speaker 3: to keep our users safe. They look at a variety
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  Speaker 3: of signals, like whether a user has previously marked an
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  Speaker 3: email as spam and applied quote equally to all senders,
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  Speaker 3: regardless of political ideology. The Gmail Google statement says us what.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two, a study by the North Carolina
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  Speaker 3: State University found that Gmail flagged fifty nine percent more
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  Speaker 3: Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones. Turn the
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  Speaker 3: lead up to the twenty twenty presidential election, we observe
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  Speaker 3: that the spam filter algorithms of different email services indeed
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  Speaker 3: exhibited biases towards different political affiliations. The researchers said at
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  Speaker 3: the time. Targeted Victory said its first informed Google about
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  Speaker 3: the issue on June thirtieth, after receiving lots of complaints
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  Speaker 3: from its clients. The company initially deflected by blaming local
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  Speaker 3: settings for the email issues. According to the memo, so
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  Speaker 3: yet again, here we are, and this is what's actually happening.
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  Speaker 3: We have big tech pushing the scales in favor of
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  Speaker 3: the radical left and doing everything they can to undermine
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  Speaker 3: even Donald Trump while he's president this time.
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