![]() ![]() As educators and science communicators, we are tasked with repairing the public’s damaged understanding of science and medicine. As scientists, we face backlash and resistance as the public grows to distrust our research and expertise. “Mass-misinformation events of this scale have extraordinarily dangerous ramifications. Malone’s interview has reached many tens of millions of listeners vulnerable to predatory medical misinformation,” they wrote. Robert Malone, a widely discredited doctor, makes various false claims about the vaccine, including that doctors hypnotized people into getting the shot. 31, 2021, singled out an episode of Rogan’s podcast in which Dr. The medical professionals who wrote the original open letter, dated Dec. In a 2020 interview with the Financial Times regarding the same podcast, Ek said Spotify is “not looking to play a role in what should say.” “And it doesn't matter if you're Joe Rogan or anyone else, we do apply those policies.” “We obviously review all the content that goes up,” he said in a Thursday earnings call, according to Business Insider. Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek said the company has no intention of taking down episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, a Spotify exclusive, because they do not violate its content policies. These young people believe Spotify would never present grossly unfactual information. “Most of the listeners hearing the unfactual, misleading, and false COVID information on Spotify are 24 years old, impressionable, and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.“I first learned of this problem by reading that 200-plus doctors had joined forces, taking on the dangerous, life-threatening COVID falsehoods found in Spotify programming,” Young wrote in a statement, referring to an open letter written by hundreds of medical professionals who urged Spotify to remove vaccine misinformation from its streaming services. ![]() What Neil Young has embarked on could very well trigger a wave of other artists following suit, but that remains to be seen. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon,” a Spotify spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.Ĭonsidering Spotify made a $100 million deal with Joe Rogan that ensures that The Joe Rogan Experience appears exclusively on the streaming service, it’s clear where their head is at on this matter. We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID since the start of the pandemic. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. The Hollywood Reporterreceived a quote from Spotify on the matter that reads as follows: The Wall Street Journal reports that Spotify will not honor Young’s request to pull Rogan and have instead moved forward with the formal request to remove Neil Young’s music from the streaming service starting today. The “Down By The River” singer wrote an open letter on his website (which has since been deleted) telling Spotify to remove his iconic catalog of music from their service if they choose to continue to spread fake information about vaccines via the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on their platform. ![]() Not both,” read Neil Young’s ultimatum to Spotify on Monday. ![]()
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