A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020 · HackerPapers discussions

A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020 — mentioned by helsinkiandrew

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:09:33 GMT

I believe this is the study mentioned in the tweet: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.16743.pdf I'd say that mass unsolicited emails asking for money are the definition of spam and by default mail filters should get rid of all - republican, democrat, or Nigerian princess. Google rolled out program to allow political spam a month ago, but this article claims the Republicans aren't using it: https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23403259/google-gmail-re...

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A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020 — mentioned by wilde

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:12:11 GMT

“Our observations in §4.1 to answer Q1 revealed that all SFAs exhibited political biases in the months leading upto the 2020 US elections. Gmail leaned towards the left (Democrats) whereas Outlook and Yahoo leaned towards the right (Republicans). Gmail marked 59.3% more emails from the right candidates as spam com- pared to the left candidates, whereas Outlook and Yahoo marked 20.4% and 14.2% more emails from left candidates as spam com- pared to the right candidates, respectively.” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.16743.pdf

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A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020 — mentioned by cato_the_elder

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:15:51 GMT

I kinda agree with Sen. Grassley, although he doesn't seem to be articulating the issue very well. Remember what happened in 2020: near the presidential election, you couldn't even DM the URL of the NY Post story to others. [1] That's blatant censorship, no matter the merits of the news story. Given tech's extreme political bias [2], it is quite likely that something similar will happen again. Comparison to spam filtering seems to be the new pro-censorship talking point [3], so it's quite possible the thing itself will soon have some kind of political censorship built into it. There is some…

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A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020 — mentioned by dahdum

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:24:27 GMT

There is at least the appearance of bias in these algorithms, with Google being a rather extreme example. It’s not easily explained away by other factors. Study showed a smaller bias towards the right for Yahoo/Outlook. I wouldn’t be too surprised if a number of Dems support this bill for the same reason. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.16743.pdf > We further observe that Gmail marks a significantly higher percentage (67.6%) of emails from the right as spam compared to the emails from left (just 8.2%).

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A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020 — HN submission

Thu, 05 May 2022 14:21:45 GMT

Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020

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A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020 — HN submission

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:15:52 GMT

A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering During US Election 2020

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A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020 — HN submission

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:47:11 GMT

Gmail sends far more emails from conservatives to spam: study

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