The Evidence Record
- Spotify denies it’s playlisting fake artists. So why are all these fake artists on its playlists?
News Report · 2017
Tim Ingham; Music Business Worldwide
Music Business Worldwide, 2017: reports Spotify playlists filled with "fake" artists, and Spotify's flat denial that it created them.
- Spotify Patent 10,891,948: Detecting Emotion from a Listener’s Voice (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Spotify AB / United States Patent and Trademark Office
Spotify's 2021 patent on detecting a listener's emotional state, gender, age and accent from their voice to pick content. A patent, not proof it was used.
- Spotify Removes Neil Young’s Music (2022)
News Report · 2022
CBS News
CBS News, January 2022: Spotify removed Neil Young's music at his request, saying it regretted his decision.
- Spotify reveals its latest measures to handle AI music
News Report · 2025
Music Ally
Music Ally, September 2025: Spotify says it does not create or own any music and that all of it comes from licensed third parties. Spotify's own…
- Spotify Support: Autoplay
Document · 2026
Spotify Support
Spotify Support: when an album or playlist ends, Autoplay keeps going with similar songs "so the music never stops."
- Spotify: 1,000-Stream Minimum for Royalties (2024)
Corporate Filing · 2024
Spotify
Spotify, April 2024: songs now need at least 1,000 streams a year, plus a minimum number of listeners it does not disclose, to earn any recording…
- Spotify: Form 20-F, 2025
Corporate Filing · 2025
Spotify Technology S.A.
Spotify's 2025 annual filing: founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon hold 69.3 percent of the voting power through special voting certificates. Tencent owns 8.1 percent of…
- Spotify: Mood Quiz Playlist Feature (2019)
Corporate Filing · 2019
Spotify
Spotify, May 2019: launched a quiz that reads your mood and suggests a playlist.
- Spotify: Royalties Guide
Corporate Filing
Spotify
Spotify's royalties guide: "No major streaming service pays per-stream." Spotify says it pays rightsholders a share of revenue and what artists get depends on their label…
- Squid Game Emmy Awards Press Conference
Document · 2022
Netflix
Netflix: Squid Game, a deadly game show for people in debt, debuted September 17, 2021 and reached 111 million accounts in 28 days. Netflix's own numbers.
- Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8 (SOC8) (2022)
Document · 2022
Coleman E, Radix AE, Bouman WP, et al. (WPATH)
WPATH SOC8 (Sept 2022) added a dedicated adolescent chapter. Draft versions circulated with minimum ages (14 for hormones, 15 mastectomy, 16 breast/17 genital); the published version…
- Stanford: Alex Stamos Biography (2026)
Document
Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Stanford University biography: Alex Stamos was Yahoo's chief information security officer before joining Facebook. This contradicts claims that he went straight from a government intelligence job…
- Stanley Fischer submits resignation as a member of the Board of Governors, effective on or around October 13, 2017
Government Record · 2017
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Verifies Fischer’s resignation as Federal Reserve Vice Chair and effective date. A separate BlackRock announcement is needed to establish the later employment move.
- Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645
Court Filing · 1972
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that a father was entitled to a hearing on his fitness as a parent before the state could take his children.
- State Department 3 FAM 3660: HAVANA Act Payments
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of State
State Department Foreign Affairs Manual: how HAVANA Act payments work, one-time, tax-free lump sums tied to the Senior Executive pay scale.
- State Department: Address on the Cultural Presentations Program (1962)
Government Record · 1962
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
A 1962 State Department speech on its Cultural Presentations Program, which sent American performing artists on tours abroad.
- State Department: Ambassador Satch (Louis Armstrong) Record Album
Government Record
U.S. Department of State / National Museum of American Diplomacy
The State Department's diplomacy museum on Louis Armstrong's "Ambassador Satch" tours: the State Department used jazz as Cold War cultural diplomacy.
- State Department: Havana Accountability Review Board (2018)
Government Record · 2018
U.S. Department of State Accountability Review Board
State Department Accountability Review Board, June 2018 (declassified): the department's response to the Havana incidents showed "a lack of senior leadership, ineffective communication, and systemic disorganization."
- State Department: NAFTA Investor-State Arbitrations
Government Record
U.S. Department of State
State Department: NAFTA Chapter 11 let foreign investors sue governments for money damages over policies, with links to the cases against the U.S.
- State Department: Report on the International Cultural Presentations Program (1961)
Government Record · 1961
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
State Department 1961 report: the Cultural Presentations Program, begun in 1954, had put American performers in front of some 15 million people worldwide, at about $2.5…
- State Employees Search Amos Miller Farm, Seize Property
News Report · 2024
The Lancaster Patriot
Report says PDA employees, assisted by Pennsylvania State Police, searched the farm January 4 under a January 3 administrative warrant. It identifies Sheri Morris as affidavit…
- State of Texas et al. v. BlackRock, Inc., State Street Corp., and The Vanguard Group, Inc., Complaint, Document 1
Court Filing · 2024
Texas and ten other states
Original complaint alleges coordinated use of coal-company shareholdings to reduce output and raise prices, plus BlackRock consumer-protection claims. These are allegations, not established facts.
- State of Texas v. BlackRock, Inc., State Street Corp., and Vanguard Group, Inc. (Docket)
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (CourtListener copy)
The court docket for Texas v. BlackRock in the Eastern District of Texas, active through October 23, 2026. No settlement by BlackRock or State Street appears;…
- State Street Bank and Trust Company Voluntary Political Action Committee, 2022 Cycle
Government Record · 2022
Federal Election Commission
Identifies State Street’s registered PAC, C00072751, and reports 2021-2022 total receipts of $178,534.16 and contributions to other committees of $141,000.