Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a Billboard story today, Spotify announced new policies for dealing with what it calls "hateful conduct" and "hate content." ...

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 ...

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, ...

Does anyone remember “The Death of the Author”? In this 1967 essay, the French philosopher Roland Barthes argued authors have no power over how the public interprets their work. A reader could know ...

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 ...

It looks like Spotify might be backing off from parts of their hate content and hateful conduct policy. According to a report published by Bloomberg earlier today (May 24), the streaming platform is ...

In light of the news that XXXTentacion's music has been removed from Spotify's playlists due to claims that it violates their hate content and hateful conduct policy, X's team responds. New York Times ...

Update: Spotify has also removed controversial rapper XXXTentacion from its playlists. XXXTentacion's hit "SAD!" was on Rap Caviar, Spotify's most popular playlist, as of yesterday. Now it's gone, ...