We've gone from Payola Scandal (Goofy) to Payola Scandal (Systemic and Widely Celebrated)
September 22, 2026 at 10:07 PM
We've gone from Payola Scandal (Goofy) to Payola Scandal (Systemic and Widely Celebrated)
This seems a lot like a vehicle for bribery, like everything else in the Trump personalist regime.
Want relief from tariffs? Payola to Trump. Reasonable drug approval reviews? Payola. Science grants? Payola.
Want relief from tariffs? Payola to Trump. Reasonable drug approval reviews? Payola. Science grants? Payola.
The FDA will issue “national priority vouchers” to companies “aligned with U.S. national priorities,” to give select companies access to extra FDA communications streamlined staff reviews so they can submit much of their product information in advance.
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FDA to offer faster drug reviews to companies promoting 'national priorities'
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators will begin offering faster reviews to new medicines that administration officials deem as promoting “the health interests of Americans,” under a new initiative announ...
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June 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This seems a lot like a vehicle for bribery, like everything else in the Trump personalist regime.
Want relief from tariffs? Payola to Trump. Reasonable drug approval reviews? Payola. Science grants? Payola.
Want relief from tariffs? Payola to Trump. Reasonable drug approval reviews? Payola. Science grants? Payola.
my favorite ben domenech fact is that after being fired for plagiarizing pj o'rourke he was then fired again a few years later for taking payola from the malaysian government.
Between this and DJT Jr's rant on the Buzzfeed Benny podcast, it's been a hell of a week for disgraced plagiarists with lucrative far-right media grifts www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
Fox News’ Ben Domenech tells Ilhan Omar to buy a one-way ticket to Somalia
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June 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
my favorite ben domenech fact is that after being fired for plagiarizing pj o'rourke he was then fired again a few years later for taking payola from the malaysian government.
My man looks like a Midwestern deejay implicated in the Payola scandal
September 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
My man looks like a Midwestern deejay implicated in the Payola scandal
Let me remind you: *payola is Amazon's single largest source of profits*. When I was researching *Enshittification*, Amazon's take from payola was in the mid-$30 billion.
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September 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Let me remind you: *payola is Amazon's single largest source of profits*. When I was researching *Enshittification*, Amazon's take from payola was in the mid-$30 billion.
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JOGA PAYOLA COLUMBIA RECORDS QUE A GENTE AMA
October 2, 2024 at 11:21 PM
JOGA PAYOLA COLUMBIA RECORDS QUE A GENTE AMA
I don't just mean they're getting screwed by being forced to shell out payola - I mean that Amazon is *cheating them* on that payola!
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September 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I don't just mean they're getting screwed by being forced to shell out payola - I mean that Amazon is *cheating them* on that payola!
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The term of art for this is "Payola". And it's a crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
I have never heard a Geese song, so this is not a critique of them, and I can’t place any moral judgment on surreptitiously astro-turfing a fan base via tiktok sock puppet accounts creating ubiquity and a sense of inevitability that achieve their stated goal…
April 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The term of art for this is "Payola". And it's a crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal
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Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal
This one involves Jack Abramoff’s crypto venture!
open.substack.com
March 24, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
So what is that-
Bribery? Payola? Protection money? All of the above??
Bribery? Payola? Protection money? All of the above??
So the owners of CBS News are considering paying money directly to the president to get better regulatory treatment from his administration?
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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January 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So what is that-
Bribery? Payola? Protection money? All of the above??
Bribery? Payola? Protection money? All of the above??
Tim Pool, noted and confirmed Russian payola recipient, somehow out here still being listened to
no amount of money could make me look at a thumbnail like this on my own content and not wonder where life went terribly wrong
July 13, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Tim Pool, noted and confirmed Russian payola recipient, somehow out here still being listened to
*That's* why Amazon fulfillment is so profitable!
While the Amazon tax is extracted through several types of junk fee, the most *profitable* junk fee of them all is Amazon's search payola. In fact, search payola *is the most profitable business that Amazon operates, full stop*.
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While the Amazon tax is extracted through several types of junk fee, the most *profitable* junk fee of them all is Amazon's search payola. In fact, search payola *is the most profitable business that Amazon operates, full stop*.
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September 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM
*That's* why Amazon fulfillment is so profitable!
While the Amazon tax is extracted through several types of junk fee, the most *profitable* junk fee of them all is Amazon's search payola. In fact, search payola *is the most profitable business that Amazon operates, full stop*.
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While the Amazon tax is extracted through several types of junk fee, the most *profitable* junk fee of them all is Amazon's search payola. In fact, search payola *is the most profitable business that Amazon operates, full stop*.
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The biggest predictor of a radio hit wasn't whether people liked the song so much that the stations rushed to play it, but rather, how much the labels were willing to spend in bribes to get their song played:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
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Payola - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM
The biggest predictor of a radio hit wasn't whether people liked the song so much that the stations rushed to play it, but rather, how much the labels were willing to spend in bribes to get their song played:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
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Spotify email:
We’re reducing payout from $0.0031 to $0.0029 to fund Joe Rogans new podcast, also the AI DJ hates you because you forgot to sign up for payola+
Bandcamp email:
BadaBoom! $7.77 from your loyal listener, with the following message “:3”
We’re reducing payout from $0.0031 to $0.0029 to fund Joe Rogans new podcast, also the AI DJ hates you because you forgot to sign up for payola+
Bandcamp email:
BadaBoom! $7.77 from your loyal listener, with the following message “:3”
March 30, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Spotify email:
We’re reducing payout from $0.0031 to $0.0029 to fund Joe Rogans new podcast, also the AI DJ hates you because you forgot to sign up for payola+
Bandcamp email:
BadaBoom! $7.77 from your loyal listener, with the following message “:3”
We’re reducing payout from $0.0031 to $0.0029 to fund Joe Rogans new podcast, also the AI DJ hates you because you forgot to sign up for payola+
Bandcamp email:
BadaBoom! $7.77 from your loyal listener, with the following message “:3”
#Last4Albums
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Snocaps - Snocaps
Desaparecidos - Payola
Maritime - Heresy & The Hotel Choir
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Snocaps - Snocaps
Desaparecidos - Payola
Maritime - Heresy & The Hotel Choir
September 26, 2026 at 2:51 PM
#Last4Albums
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Snocaps - Snocaps
Desaparecidos - Payola
Maritime - Heresy & The Hotel Choir
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Snocaps - Snocaps
Desaparecidos - Payola
Maritime - Heresy & The Hotel Choir
A class action lawsuit accuses Spotify of engaging in “payola” to allow record labels to secretly promote their artists in the streaming service’s Discovery Mode.
Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Spotify of Engaging in 'Payola' in Discovery Mode
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November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A class action lawsuit accuses Spotify of engaging in “payola” to allow record labels to secretly promote their artists in the streaming service’s Discovery Mode.
UP, cadê os hits orgânicos? Tá trabalhando com payola?! Decepcionado
September 8, 2024 at 11:48 PM
UP, cadê os hits orgânicos? Tá trabalhando com payola?! Decepcionado
It's the Jack Abramoff/right-wing-media payola scandal you've been waiting for! ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/40Mscvf
Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal
This one involves Jack Abramoff’s crypto venture!
lnk.thebulwark.com
March 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
It's the Jack Abramoff/right-wing-media payola scandal you've been waiting for! ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/40Mscvf
caveman payola scandal
You know how there are unimaginably vast spans of time where archeological records show the same tool being used, no new tool invented for vastly longer than agriculture has existed?
Imagine if caveman music did the same thing, the same #1 hit song for 10 million straight weeks
Imagine if caveman music did the same thing, the same #1 hit song for 10 million straight weeks
September 22, 2026 at 8:30 PM
caveman payola scandal
Payola publication discusses payola metrics off payola streaming platforms. These institutions continue to solidify their own irrelevance.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Payola publication discusses payola metrics off payola streaming platforms. These institutions continue to solidify their own irrelevance.
We need to talk more about how the White House press secretary's main claim to fame before the White House job was signing her name to payola OpEds defending an accused international fraudster and fugitive from justice.
March 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
We need to talk more about how the White House press secretary's main claim to fame before the White House job was signing her name to payola OpEds defending an accused international fraudster and fugitive from justice.
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October 8, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Amazon's logistics and cloud computing are extraordinary, but they are eclipsed by the company's *most* profitable line of business, which is *payola*.
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September 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Amazon's logistics and cloud computing are extraordinary, but they are eclipsed by the company's *most* profitable line of business, which is *payola*.
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crook sicko is the technical term for this person. remember, before she got this job her gig was signing payola opeds for an accused fraudster and international fugitive
Leavitt: "We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."
March 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
crook sicko is the technical term for this person. remember, before she got this job her gig was signing payola opeds for an accused fraudster and international fugitive
