

24), writing in part, “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. Mitchell’s announcement comes just two days after Spotify confirmed it would be granting Young’s request to have his music removed from the platform. “But that’s kind of gaslighting, when his statement only deals with the issue of having guests on and not his long record of personal advocacy in the hours he spends bantering with sidekicks - advocating for Ivermectin as being superior to vaccines, and for young people not getting vaccinated at all.At the time of publishing, Mitchell’s music was still available on Spotify. “It feels like Rogan kind of got a get-out-of-jail pass with some people just because he posted an Instagram video in which he came off as a reasonable, humble guy who just wants to neutrally provide a platform for different viewpoints,” says Willman. In his nearly 10-minute video, he blames his critics for having “a distorted perception of what I do, maybe based on sound bites or based on headlines of articles that are disparaging.” He said he agreed with Spotify’s decision to add a disclaimer to certain episodes and promised to “do my best in the future to balance things out” by speaking to a wider variety of experts. This past weekend, Rogan posted an Instagram video, saying, “I’m not trying to promote misinformation.” But he is doing just that. But that hardly absolves them from oversight and responsibility when it comes to content that they know - or should know - is misleading with respect to COVID.” They have a right to grow their business. 30 that Spotify has “handled this crisis like crap.” When I followed up with Elzer, he said: “Look, what Spotify is doing with Joe Rogan is borrowing from the Sirius-Howard Stern playbook. Entertainment publicist Steve Elzer tweeted Jan. However, many criticized Spotify for not going far enough to stop the spread of harmful misinformation from anti-vaxxers. He released a statement that he plans to add warning advisories to any podcast episodes that include discussions about COVID-19. 10 open letter to Spotify, calling on the platform to implement a policy against “mass-misinformation” regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, citing “The Joe Rogan Experience.” But it wasn’t until Young took a hard stand - which initially cost the global platform more than $2 billion in market value over a three-day period last week - that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek finally responded. Prior to the recent artist protests, more than 250 doctors, nurses, scientists, health professionals and academics published a Jan.
