If you were amongst those attempting to follow the dominos on Twitter last week, that roster of protesting artists expanded in a hurry and receded even quicker. But as other artists begin to flank Young’s position on the streamer’s irresponsible misinformation protocol, figuring out precisely which musicians are pulling their catalogs from the platform has uncovered a troubling and ironic cycle of unverified claims. The fallout from Spotify’s week of reckoning has reportedly cost the company billions in market value. Robert Malone, mouth-of-the-modern-men’s-rights-movement, Jordan Peterson, and COVID-conspiracy-specialist Peter McCullough. And in the days following, thousands of users staged a boycott of Spotify, scrapping their premium accounts in protest of the company’s decision to roll with Rogan, who’s recent guests include vaccine-developer-turned-skeptic, Dr.
The streamer very predictably chose to back its nine-figure investment in the podcasting space over Young’s music and swiftly began removing the folk-rock legend’s songs from their servers. Last week, Neil Young commenced the war on Spotify and Joe Rogan’s misinformation machine by forcing the company to choose between hosting his catalog and providing a mostly unmoderated platform for the podcasting star to explore controversial and outright dangerous falsehoods regarding COVID-19 and the global effort to vaccinate the public against a deadly virus.
As artists begin pulling their music from Spotify in protest of their support of Joe Rogan’s podcast, figuring out precisely whose catalog has been removed from the platform has uncovered a troubling and ironic cycle of unverified claims In his Instagram post, Rogan said that he had “never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people”.Photo Illustration by Cindy Ord via Getty Images. Peter McCullough.īoth doctors expressed views that are different from the mainstream information being provided by the governments. Robert Malone MD, who was one of the inventors of the mRNA vaccine, the one that all the available Covid 19 vaccinations are based on. The Joe Rogan Experience is one of Spotify’s most listened-to podcasts with each episode averaging 11 million listeners. In a response to this, Spotify says that it is working to put advisory warnings to any podcast that discusses Covid-19 moving forward. The musicians have requested that Spotify remove their music from the streaming platform as a result. Joe Rogan has come under criticism from musicians Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren, and Neil Young who have accused him of spreading Covid misinformation. Podcaster Joe Rogan has pledged to offer balanced views on his podcast after musician Neil Young accused him of spreading Covid misinformation.
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