{"id":2161916,"date":"2025-11-17T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2161916"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:02:05","slug":"new-york-city-comptroller-has-questions-for-spotify-about-ice-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-york-city-comptroller-has-questions-for-spotify-about-ice-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Comptroller has questions for Spotify about ICE ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-256301\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>Brad Lander is the New York City comptroller \u2013\u00a0essentially the city\u2019s independently-elected chief financial officer. The city\u2019s public pension funds are under his wing; those funds include investments in Spotify. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That has now spurred Lander to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/comptroller.nyc.gov\/reports\/letter-to-spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-re-u-s-customs-and-immigration-enforcement-advertisements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">write to CEO Daniel Ek with some questions<\/a>\u00a0about the recent controversy over Spotify running recruitment ads from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom a fiduciary perspective, I am concerned about the reputational risks these ads may create for the company, which could hamper long-term growth, and want to better understand how the company assessed these ads against the company\u2019s stated advertising policies,\u201d wrote Lander in his letter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>It includes six questions about the processes around accepting the ads; the impact of the criticism on Spotify\u2019s business; and how the company is \u201cengaging with artists, labels, and users to restore trust and reinforce the company\u2019s commitment to inclusivity and responsible advertising\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lander, a progressive Democrat, has taken a prominent stance against recent ICE raids \u2013\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/17\/nyregion\/brad-lander-immigration-ice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including being arrested for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section>\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Lander is the New York City comptroller \u2013\u00a0essentially the city\u2019s independently-elected chief financial officer. The city\u2019s public pension funds are under his wing; those funds include investments in Spotify. That has now spurred Lander to\u00a0write to CEO Daniel Ek with some questions\u00a0about the recent controversy over Spotify running recruitment ads from the US Immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2161917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[361421,22821,25423],"class_list":["post-2161916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-advertising","tag-spotify","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/New-York-City-Comptroller-has-questions-for-Spotify-about-ICE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161918,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161916\/revisions\/2161918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}