Spotify Showed Porn Videos In Search Results For Some Popular Artists

A Reddit personification posted a screenshot overnight of a Spotify hunt that brought a surprise: a pornographic video tucked into suggested results for nan rapper M.I.A. Here’s a NSFW nexus to nan thread. The video shown successful their screenshot didn’t look for us, but we recovered others aft scrolling done dozens of results successful nan “Video” tab.

One of nan accounts that posted videos we saw has published seductive audio for years but has radiated successful sexually schematic videos overmuch recently. Another account, which was named pinch a agelong drawstring of alphanumeric characters, has been publishing arsenic nonsensically-titled definitive videos arsenic a podcast narration since mid-November.

Spotify emblematic Laura Batey told The Verge successful an email that nan examples we provided “have been removed owed to usurpation of our policies.” Those policies spot forbidding sexually definitive material. We asked Spotify for overmuch accusation connected really nan videos made it past its moderation and will update coming if it responds.

The videos we recovered look to beryllium unmoderated podcast uploads, and reporting them isn’t very convenient. The Spotify app lacks a fastener for doing truthful — instead, users personification to transcript nan content’s URL and caput to a webpage for reporting imaginable violations.

Porn connected Spotify isn’t a caller thing. Other caller Reddit posts incorporated examples of unexpected definitive video successful hunt results and moreover seductive audio tracks being suggested successful 1 user’s Discovery Weekly algorithmic playlist. A 2022 Vice communicative too elaborate sexually definitive audio connected nan platform, arsenic bully arsenic different contented for illustration schematic nudity successful user-made playlist surface art.