My perspective may be off but is €150000 a lot? I'd be curious to know if they donated anything to other similar Democrat events (and in other countries). I'd be more sceptical seeing Spotify donate to Trump's actual campaign, but donating to the inauguration of a democraticly elected president doesn't seem insane to me, even if the president is as awful as Trump.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Another reason is that Spotify has been making AI generated music to try to avoid paying royalties to real artists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Couldn't find anything on Spotify donating to Biden's inauguration, but you can see an unsurprising trend in company donations: https://www.newsweek.com/tech-ceos-donations-donald-trump-joe-biden-inaugurations-compared-2010457

Ideally, companies wouldn't use their massive wealth to bribe any elected president, much less with such a clear political agenda.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

They did also resign joe rogan in 2024 to give him a $250 million dollar deal. He's played a huge part in radicalizing his listeners.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Ah, I read Re-sign as forced resignation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

Much better example, thanks. I remember that deal really upset their staff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Doesn't matter if it's relatively a lot. It is objectively a lot of money. They could have donated it to a worthy cause like starving people.
It's Trump. They should have donated $0.
It doesn't matter if they're democratically elected or not. Being elected doesn't mean you're good.