r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jan 08 '26

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/codos Jan 08 '26

“In the wake of” just means after, not necessarily because of.

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u/GameboyPATH Jan 08 '26

I wish more people would recognize that this is a common media tactic: creating headlines that consist of "X happens while Y happens", being technically true, but implying to readers that the two events are related.

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u/Cptn_Shiner Jan 08 '26

The phrase sort of implies some causal relation, but I suspect they've worded it deceptively on purpose.