Liz Pelly, the journalist who uncovered Spotify’s fake artist farms: ‘In an hour they produce dozens of songs’

Liz Pelly, 35, had been writing about music for various blogs and media outlets since her teens, until she grew tired of promotional interviews and writing listicle articles summarizing entire albums in five lines. As a true millennial, she knew that little remained of the utopian internet that had democratized music consumption, making it more accessible until piracy became a global problem. The arrival of streaming platforms changed everything, and in 2016, she decided to begin investigating Spotify and its corporate consolidation mechanisms through its playlists.

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