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\n\tSpotify stopped running ICE ads at the end of 2025. On Thursday, a Spotify spokesperson confirmed to Rolling Stone<\/em> that the platform was no longer running recruitment ads<\/a> for the government agency after its latest campaign, which spanned multiple platforms, came to an end at the end of last year.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cYes, there are currently no ICE ads running on Spotify,\u201d the spokesperson tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cThe advertisements mentioned were part of a U.S. government recruitment campaign that ran across all major media and platforms. The campaign ended on most platforms and channels, including Spotify, at the end of last year.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe new reporting comes a day after an ICE agent fatally shot <\/a>a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, sparking protests and uproar across the country. But according to the spokesperson, the two situations were unrelated, as the end of the ICE ads on the platform came weeks before the incident.<\/p>\n \n\tSpotify, and numerous streaming services such as Pandora,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>, and Meta, had been under scrutiny for running recruitment advertising from the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security<\/a> last year. The push was part of the Trump administration\u2019s investment of $30 billion to hire at least 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of 2025, according to\u00a0The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to data from Equis reported by Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in November, the Department of Homeland Security spent a combined $2.8 million on English and Spanish-language ads on Meta\u2019s Facebook and Instagram since March 1, and another half a million on\u00a0ICE<\/a>\u00a0recruitment ads on the platform since August. On Google and YouTube, DHS spent nearly $3 million on specifically Spanish-language advertising aimed at promoting self-deportation. <\/p>\n \n\tAn industry source told\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/em>at the time that Spotify had received $74,000 from DHS to run its advertisements.\u00a0That figure represents less than three percent of what the government spent on Google and Meta.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a statement to\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0on Nov. 2, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that \u201chiring law enforcement officers is mission critical in order to fix the crisis the Biden administration manufactured by letting millions of criminal illegal aliens come into the country\u2026 Nothing will slow us down from recruiting more officers.\u201d<\/p>\n