spam filter

noun

informal
: software that identifies and blocks spam

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Our new music spam filter will protect against this behavior and help prevent spammers from generating royalties that could be otherwise distributed to professional artists and songwriters. Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025 After the accusations were levied by the RNC, Google launched a temporary pilot program in August 2022 to exempt qualified political emails from Gmail’s spam filter, which the RNC opted to not participate in, according to court documents. Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025 Google said in response that the RNC never participated in a pilot program that let political emails bypass the Gmail spam filter. ArsTechnica, 29 Aug. 2025 For that rare soul who still needs a local spam filter, K7 provides one. PC Magazine, 20 July 2025 Imagine an attacker subtly corrupting the data that trains a spam filter or fraud detector—the AI might then start letting threats slip through or flagging the wrong items. Ronen Cojocaru, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025 There’s no consensus on how to best determine the relative costs of these two, but whoever is behind your spam filter made that determination—if not intentionally and explicitly, then by allowing the system to effectively default to something arbitrary. Eric Siegel, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

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“Spam filter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spam%20filter. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.

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