Spotify has cleared its platform for many fake audio materials that directed users to web sites that claim to sell medicines without a prescription.
The case has been highlighted in recent days by CNN and Business Insider, whose separate investigations discovered about 200 medical prescription medications wandering in podcasts.
Many podcasts “were less than one minute, less than the content and more about paying the product, and providing links to web sites that claim to sell opioids such as Tramadol and Oxycodone”, ” Business Insider He said in her report.
In its own report, CNN said: “Podcast with addresses like Adderall – Which has a link in describing the episode to a site that claims that Adderall has been included, as well as addictive pain drugs such as Oxycodone and Vicodin, among other drugs – in the first fifty proposed results. “
Although Spotify removed a lot of violating content, CNN claimed on Friday that “it was easily managed to find dozens of fake fake sales pages, including some who were posted on the platform for several months.”
In a widely reported statement, a broadcasting giant spokesman said: “We are constantly working to discover the content that violates and removes its violation through our service.”
Some violating podcasts only continued after seconds, and were distinguished by computerized advertising drugs that can be purchased in a few clicks.
In the guidelines of her community for creators, Spotify says While its mission is “to give the democratic character to the sound” and “to be a platform that allows a variety of sounds and destinations to share their stories with the world … and this does not mean that anything is going on our platform.”
On another page entitled “Spotify platform rules”, ” Speaking examples Among the materials banned from the broadcast service, including “content that illegally enhances the sale of organized or illegal goods” such as drugs.
Digital Trends has come to Spotify to get an update on her efforts to purify her platform for banned podcasts and we will update this article when we hear again.
