Google is launching a pilot program to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users’ spam folders this week, following pressure from politicians (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Axios:
The RNC sues Google for allegedly putting its campaign emails in Gmail spam; the RNC has been criticizing Google’s pilot to keep campaign emails out of spam  —  The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a lawsuit against Google in a U.S. district court in California for allegedly putting …

Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Source: nearly a month after Google launched a pilot to keep political campaign emails from going to Gmail’s spam folder, RNC hasn’t joined or applied to it  —  With only weeks until Election Day, the Republican National Committee is escalating its war over Gmail’s spam filters in what critics deem …

Makena Kelly / The Verge:
TikTok expands its political content rules to limit fundraising by politicians and political groups, ahead of a full ban on fundraising  —  Starting Wednesday, TikTok is expanding its elections rules to make it harder for politicians and political groups to fundraise using the platform — and plans to ban all fundraising activity soon.

Jon Keegan / The Markup:
A look at data brokers selling campaigns “comprehensive” profiles on potential voters, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time ad auctions  —  Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements

Ashley Gold / Axios:
Following tests on Instagram, Meta begins testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, letting users upload IDs or video selfies screened by partner Yoti  —  Meta is testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, a move the company says will make the product safer, per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios.

Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon  —  To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.