

Now, users can listen to their hits like “Ignition Remix” and “SAD!,” respectively, but Spotify will not make any effort to actively promote them.

Kelly and XXXTentacion were the only ones immediately affected by the policy, due to the former’s allegations of sexual abuse and the latter facing charges of aggravated battery. Last week, Canadian music artist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young told Spotify that they could either remove his music or the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) podcast, which Young accused of. In May 2018, they enacted a Hate Content and Hateful Conduct policy, but redacted it in June of the same year due to vagueness and an apparent lack of input from the platform’s team and partners. In 2017, the service removed racist music in response to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. We should have clear lines around content and take action when they are crossed, but canceling voices is a slippery slope.” Yet the platform has not always left content totally up to creators. Rogan has come under fire for hosting a guest skeptical of covid vaccines, and the controversy prompted an apology from him on. Anthony Fauci and President Joe Biden.In a message to employees, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, after condemning Rogan’s words, wrote, “I want to make one point very clear - I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer. The musician Neil Young’s catalog all but disappeared from the platform at his request last Thursday over the Joe Rogan Experience, the most popular podcast on the platform that boasts 172 million subscribers. population has been “hypnotized” into believing vaccine news from mainstream media outlets, Dr. In December, Rogan interviewed Malone, who plugged a baseless theory called “ mass-formation psychosis” that argues as much as one-third of the U.S. Rogan has come under fire for making misleading or outright false comments about the coronavirus pandemic, including suggesting in April that young, healthy people don’t need to get vaccinated. Doctors Want Spotify to Stop Joe Rogan 'Anti-vax' Misinformation The popular stand-up comedian, dubbed The King of all podcasting, wildly disses getting covid vaccines on his podcast which has a. Spotify began to pull down Young’s expansive discography of 40 albums Wednesday.

After two high-profile musicians took their. Despite the popularity of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Young argued Spotify has a responsibility to “mitigate the spread of misinformation” and gave the platform an ultimatum: his music, or Rogan’s podcast. The popular audio streaming service Spotify has come under fire for hosting the podcaster Joe Rogan, who has spread COVID misinformation to millions. On Monday, Young published a now-deleted open letter to Spotify that claimed the platform was spreading “ fake information about vaccines” that could prove deadly, and specifically singled out Rogan’s podcast, the most popular on Spotify with an estimated 11 million listeners per episode.
