I’m Amy Goodman.Ĭalls are growing for the audio-streaming app Spotify to remove Joe Rogan’s podcast from its platform after he promoted misinformation about COVID-19 on his show and as video resurfaced showing Rogan making repeated racist comments. This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report. Neil Young’s former bandmates have also asked to remove their music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan. Copy may not be in its final form.ĪMY GOODMAN: “Find the Cost of Freedom” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. “He’s made it clear that he doesn’t have any intention of changing the lies and hate he spreads on his podcast, and it’s far past time that Spotify came to the plate and actually moderated the content on its platform,” says Alex Paterson, a self-described “Joe Rogan watchdog” and senior researcher for the LGBTQ Program at Media Matters.
Musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music from the platform in protest of his $100 million contract reportedly paid by Spotify, raising questions how responsible audio platforms should be over hateful content. Image Credit: Joe Rogan Experience/YouTubeĬomedian Joe Rogan has come under fire for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, using racial slurs and other harmful rhetoric on his Spotify podcast.
