Drug dealers hijacked Spotify's podcast search with 57,000 fake episodes linking to illegal pharmacy sites selling opioids and benzos with crypto.

A joint congressional report describes a spam operation that turned tens of thousands of fake podcasts into search-engine bait for illegal pharmacy and scam sites.

Google has made it easier to stream from Apple Podcasts and others when searching for podcasts in Google Search. After earlier this year winding down a feature that let users play podcasts directly ...