Spotify pulled 57,000 fake podcast episodes and 3,500 accounts promoting illegal drugs after a US Senate investigation exposed the scale of the problem.

After a Business Insider investigation exposed opioid-promoting podcasts on Spotify, a US senator found the company removed more than 57,000 episodes.

Spotify has removed tens of thousands of phony podcasts promoting illegal online pharmacies, a new investigation has found, after reports from CNN and other news outlets exposed…