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A Reddit user posted a screenshot overnight of a Spotify search that brought a surprise: a pornographic video embedded in suggested results for rapper MIA Here’s a NSFW link to thread. The video shown in his screenshot didn’t appear for us, but we found others after scrolling through dozens of results in the “Videos” tab.
One of the accounts that posted videos we looked at has been posting erotic audio for years, but has branched out into sexually graphic videos more recently. Another account, which was named with a long string of alphanumeric characters, has been posting similarly nonsensically titled explicit videos as a podcast account since mid-November.
Spotify representative Laura Batey said The Virgin in an email that the examples we provided “were removed due to violation of our policies.” These policies include prohibit sexually explicit material. We asked Spotify for more information on how the videos passed their moderation and will update here if they respond.
The videos we found appear to be unmoderated podcast uploads, and reporting them isn’t very convenient. The Spotify app lacks a button to do so — instead, users have to copy the URL of the content and go to a web page for report possible violations.
