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.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 28 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah, I read Re-sign as forced resignation.

[–] jpeps@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 5 points 16 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.