There was some noise about spotify choosing to recommend "fake" in-house artists who they had to pay less royalties to, but according to this article those concerns were overblown: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961416/spotify-fake-art...

honestly, I don't know who to believe about anything anymore, but luckily this particular controversy is pretty low-stakes relative to a number of other current topics.