The streaming company received backlash after announcing its policy on hate speech and hateful conduct, which meant Spotify wouldn「t allow music from artists who contravene this to be promoted on its playlists or anywhere in its service … Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told Recode」s Code Conference on Wednesday that they「rolled this out wrong」and that they「could’ve done a much better job」on communicating its new policy … Last week, a Bloomberg report stated Spotify has begun to backtrack on the policy that prevents artists from being promoted based on their personal misconduct.