Spotify to stop airing political ads

Published December 27, 2019 10:03pm ET



Music streaming giant Spotify announced that it will stop airing political ads in the run-up to the 2020 election.

A spokesman for the company, which has more than 100 million subscribers, told CNN Business that the decision came because Spotify does not have the ability to “responsibly validate” the advertisements, although he didn’t rule out changes to that policy in the future.

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