Getting Hate Speech Off Music-Streaming Services
Spotify has pulled a number of bands from its platform in yet another example of tech companies grappling with white supremacy.
by Spencer Kornhaber
Aug 17, 2017
2 minutes
In a week of renewed national attention to organized white supremacy, the music-streaming platform Spotify has removed a number of bands alleged to be associated with neo-Nazism. On Monday, Paul Resnikoff at that 29 bands identified as racist were available for listening on Spotify (as well as another eight apparently hateful artists that Resnikoff found). By Thursday, Spotify had removed many of the
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