Google's Black Box Algorithm Controls Which Political Emails Land in Your Main Inbox

malcontent · 29 Feb 2020, 07:45 AM

https://themarkup.org/google-the-gia...heres-my-email

EricG · 29 Feb 2020, 01:39 PM

I doubt they are filtering based on the candidate like the article suggests. From what I read, gmail looks for keywords and the style of the message.

I have primary and promotion categories and subscribe to several weekly summaries from news/tech sites. It mostly works, none went to spam. I heard it "learns" if you simply move a few message to the other, but I don't see that. I get notifications either way so it's not a big problem.

I am on a campaign (not US) list on outlook.com and several senders go to spam. False spam has always been a problem there.

29 Feb 2020, 07:45 AM	#1
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29 Feb 2020, 01:39 PM	#2
EricG Essential Contributor Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 296	I doubt they are filtering based on the candidate like the article suggests. From what I read, gmail looks for keywords and the style of the message. I have primary and promotion categories and subscribe to several weekly summaries from news/tech sites. It mostly works, none went to spam. I heard it "learns" if you simply move a few message to the other, but I don't see that. I get notifications either way so it's not a big problem. I am on a campaign (not US) list on outlook.com and several senders go to spam. False spam has always been a problem there.