Spotify Takes Steps to Remove Hate Music From Streaming Service

Spotify announced it has removed "hate bands" identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center from the streaming service. The removal comes after Digital Music News, in the wake of last week's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, identified at least 27 "hate bands" from the SPLC list on Spotify. Additionally, because of Spotify's filtering algorithm, bands that catered to neo-Nazi and white supremacist audiences that fell outside the SPLC list were also easily discoverable."Spotify takes im