Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP
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Email deliverability is now a regulated-like access channel for political actors, not just a neutral spam outcome. Any platform that mediates communication at scale should expect similar carve-out pressure from organized stakeholders and build policy, logging, and auditability accordingly.
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