Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy.” He added, “With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence. Young continued, “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.” On his own website, Young wrote, “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines-potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. (Here is a clip of him being fact-checked in real-time but not admitting error.) Prior to Young’s demand, hundreds of doctors have petitioned Spotify to take action against Rogan. Young claims that Rogan is giving misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines that is potentially causing serious damage, and deaths. Young demands that Spotify make a choice between his music or Rogan’s popular podcast. Here, we wanted to collect what these artists are saying about Spotify and Rogan, so their words and thoughts could be seen in one place. Those artists include India.Arie, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Nils Lofgren and more. As a result, many more artists have followed in Young’s footsteps. In the 7-10 days since Young posed the ultimatum to Spotify, the platform decided to back Rogan, whom they paid $100 million for the exclusive hosting rights to his show. Late last month, the legendary singer/songwriter wrote a letter about his misgivings with Spotify and its popular podcast from host Joe Rogan, which he posted on his website.įollowing the footsteps of hundreds of doctors and healthcare professionals, Young decried Rogan’s misinformation when it comes to COVID-19 and criticized Spotify for hosting Rogan’s show.
Oh, what a chain of events Neil Young has started.
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