These pages had existed for months in some cases and were easily discoverable on Spotify’s platform. Even after the issue was flagged, CNN was able to find new fake podcasts cropping up.

Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire is demanding answers from Spotify after a BI investigation found 200 fake podcasts ...

This week, Spotify rushed to remove hundreds of obviously fake podcasts found to be marketing prescription drugs in violation of Spotify's policies and, likely, federal law. On Thursday ...

Lauren Balik, who runs a blog about tech company stocks, called on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to address the fake podcast issue in a post on X earlier this week. Business Insider also published a ...

Business Insider also reported that it had flagged 200 podcasts that Spotify subsequently removed. The fake podcasts — which had showed up among the top suggestions in searches for drug names ...

Spotify is facing renewed scrutiny after an investigation uncovered dozens of fake podcasts masquerading as ... drug sales targeting young people. The issue has become especially urgent in light ...

Spotify's system failed to detect and remove these harmful podcasts. Spotify has been accused of hosting numerous fake podcasts promoting the sale of addictive drugs such as Xanax, Oxycodone ...