Spotify Says ICE Recruitment Ads Don’t Violate Company Policy

In the past few months, a number of artists have moved to take their music down from Spotify. The list includes Massive Attack, Sylvan Esso, and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, among many others. Lots of those artists cite Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s investment in the AI military company Helsing. It can’t be easy to take your music down from Spotify, even with the company’s paltry royalty payments. When your music isn’t on Spotify, you’re effectively invisible to a great many listeners. But anyone considering dropping Spotify now has another reason for doing so, since the app is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

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