Republican emails went to spam. Google denies it was political bias.

Every day, Americans send nearly 10 billion emails. Somewhere in that mountain of messages sits a job application, a customer complaint, a school announcement, a bill, or another annoying update from an organization you intended to unsubscribe from five years ago. Most people assume that when they hit send, their message has every chance of reaching its destination. They trust the system to deliver it. That trust deserves scrutiny.

The Republican Party has a $117 million reason to ask questions.

The distinction matters far beyond Republican fundraising.

A new study by researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Alabama estimates that Republican fundraising lost $117 million in donations during two periods last year, when Gmail’s spam filters actively diverted campaign emails from supporters’ inboxes. Researchers