"Indivisible, the organization behind the No Kings protests, is escalating its pressure campaign against Spotify with an argument that has become increasingly difficult to dismiss. For months, the world's most powerful music platform has functioned as a delivery system for Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruitment propaganda. And after the murder of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis yesterday, it's all the harder to pretend that this arrangement belongs to the realm of abstraction or policy debate."
"These ads have circulated quietly through the platform's free tier, slipping into listening sessions with the same frictionless ease as mattress discounts or meal kits. Spotify has acknowledged their presence and defended them with the same explanation each time: the ads are part of a "broad campaign" by the U.S. government; they do not violate Spotify's advertising policies; users who object can train the algorithm by clicking a thumbs-down button."
Indivisible is escalating pressure on Spotify over recruitment ads for Immigration and Customs Enforcement that appear on the platform's free tier. Spotify has run ICE recruitment ads while ICE pursues a 'wartime recruitment' push, and has defended the ads as part of a 'broad campaign' by the U.S. government and within advertising policy. The ads slip into listening sessions alongside commercial offers, and Spotify points to user controls like a thumbs-down button as recourse. Indivisible demanded that Spotify terminate advertising contracts with ICE and DHS and update its policy to prohibit government propaganda and hate-based recruitment campaigns.
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