Bestselling author Brené Brown also announced that her Spotify-exclusive podcasts “Unlocking Us” and “Dare to Lead” would be paused in the wake of the Rogan-Spotify firestorm. This prompted other notable musicians including Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and India.Arie (who left due to Rogan’s “language around race”) to follow Young’s lead. A couple days later, Spotify removed his music from the platform. In the following weeks, folk-rock pioneer Neil Young amplified their message when he issued a public ultimatum, demanding for Spotify to either drop the “The Joe Rogan Experience,” or say goodbye to his music discography.
The coalition called for Spotify to “establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform” to restrict potentially harmful content about the pandemic. “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,” the musician wrote.It all started back in late December when a small community of medical professionals, scientists, and professors posted an open letter to Spotify in response to their exclusive podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which they said had been promoting baseless conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID.
In January, Neil Young blasted Spotify and Rogan’s podcast in specific for “spreading fake information about vaccines” and asked for his music to be removed from the platform. The podcast host has also been facing controversy about how his podcast has dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing.” Instead of saying ‘the N-word,’ I would just say the word.
Rogan continued, “I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, nevermind publicly on a podcast, and I agree with that now. And it looks fucking horrible, even to me.” “It’s a video that’s made of clips taken out of context of me of 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and it’s all smushed together. “There’s a video that’s out that’s a compilation of me saying the N-word,” Rogan said at the time. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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