White Supremacist Music Prevalent on Spotify, While Platform Largely Declines to Act | ADL

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Intro The ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has identified 40 white supremacist artists with a presence on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform.

More on the three most popular white supremacist sub-genres on Spotify: Fashwave: A musical sub-genre of the Vaporwave movement (a non-extremist genre of electronic music), Fashwave was created to spread white supremacist ideology (Fashwave is derived from the word “Fascism.”)

The movement started in the British punk scene in the late 1970s.

As in the case of Wiking 1940, verified extremist artists are eligible for inclusion on Spotify’s curated playlists, which can introduce unknowing listeners to extremist music.

A public playlist curated by Spotify for Wiking 1940, note the inclusion of Kushfrost, a Rock Against Communism band mentioned earlier.

Cover photos of Fashwave playlists on Spotify, many of which display white supremacist imagery including Pepe the Frog, the Iron Cross, and a Red Pill Despite adding explicit anti-extremist guidelines to their content policy, Spotify allows extremist content to flourish.