Spotify’s Discovery Mode allows artists to flag songs to be boosted in Spotify’s algorithmic recommendations in exchange for a 30% royalty commission—but a lawsuit accuses the streaming company of boosting artists who pay them.
Threads surpassed X in daily active users on mobile devices worldwide for the first time by a razor-thin margin late September, though now Threads has since extended its lead by millions of users.
A federal lawsuit filed Sunday in California federal court accuses Spotify of failing to prevent streaming fraud, including by allowing “billions” of bot-generated streams that allegedly boosted rapper Drake’s streaming numbers, though he is not named as a defendant.
The numbers “six” and “seven” are sending kids into a frenzy as the viral phrase, which comes from a song by rapper Skrilla, takes over TikTok, even though Skrilla has admitted the phrase is meaningless.
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has become vocal about the “Dead Internet Theory,” suggesting much of the content posted online is AI-generated, not human-created.
While the number of daily active users for Threads has steadily grown in the two years since it launched, X’s numbers have declined considerably.
The delayed episode will be the first since Comedy Central pulled a “South Park” episode that satirized conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed last week, from rotation.
Rights to the Fyre Festival were up for auction eight years after its organizers held a disastrous, widely mocked festival that landed its co-founder in prison.
Shares of gun manufacturers spiked immediately following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus Wednesday
Spotify is rolling out its long-awaited, high-quality “lossless” music streaming feature, which has already been available on competitors like Apple Music for years.