MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 15: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Best quality available) In this handout provided by the Miami Dade County Corrections, Rapper XXXTentacion, also known as Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy poses for his ...

Less than month ago, Spotify installed its controversial “Hate Content and Hateful Content Policy,” under which certain artists were removed from its popular, curated playlists. One of them was ...

A few weeks ago, Spotify announced a new hate content and hateful conduct policy which resulted in the removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion's music from Spotify-curated playlists and other editorial ...

Streams of rapper XXXTentacion's single "SAD!" have dipped 17% per day in the week since the song was removed from certain Spotify playlists, Billboard reports. If the rate of decline persists, the ...

Spotify, the music industry’s leading streaming service, said Thursday that it would stop promoting or recommending music by artists whose content or conduct it deemed to be offensive, hoping to quell ...

Controversial rapper XXXTentacion was shot dead in Florida Monday. He was 20 years old. A month before the fatal shooting, the "SAD!" rapper had some of his music removed from Spotify when the ...

Spotify has posted a new Hate Content & Hateful Conduct policy, which, among other things, states, “When an artist or creator does something that is especially harmful or hateful (for example, ...

The New York Times published a catalog on August 20 of each of the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls’ campaign playlists. These are the tracks that the candidates use to amp up their campaign ...

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In a Billboard story today, Spotify announced new policies for dealing with what it calls "hateful conduct" and "hate content." Under the new rules, anyone who engages in what the streaming service ...