Spotify quietly took down over 57,000 podcasts peddling opioids, a US senator says

Spotify co-CEOs Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Spotify Spotify removed 57,000 opioid-related podcasts after Business Insider's probe into the issue. Sen. Maggie Hassan criticized Spotify for failing to report the podcast content to law enforcement. Spotify said the removed podcasts were scams targeting search rankings, not drug sales. Spotify's opioid-promoting podcast problem was a lot bigger than initially thought. US Sen. Maggie Hassan says the music s...