The platform’s employees threaten to walk out.
Advertisers begin to pull their campaigns civil rights groups organize a boycott a hashtag trending on the controversy. They understand if Spotify fails to act based on listener complaints alone, there are other ways to turn up the heat. And what Spotify’s CEOs mostly want, regardless of what high-minded principles they claim to hold, is for users to stop criticizing them. Users understand that Spotify’s rules are fuzzy and improvisational. However, the backslash intensifies even more. “We promise to introduce new features that will promote higher-quality information.” “It is important to me that we would not take on the position of “content censor,” he says. However, he expresses their commitment to putting advisory warnings about Covid-19 on podcast episodes and directing listeners to a hub filled with reliable and verified health information. Hoping to ride out of the Rogan controversy, Daniel Ek, the platform’s chief executive on Sunday, published the requisite blog post about the importance of free speech, saying it is not “responsible for content posted on its platform,” declining to take action against Joe Rogan. Another prominent host, Brené Brown, quickly followed suit, announcing that she would not be releasing new episodes of her Spotify-only podcast “until further notice.”ĭays later, the CEO was forced to choose between barring Joe Rogan and facing the wrath of the latter’s followers or being seen as a hypocrite and an enabler of harmful behavior. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, two folk-rock superstars, led the boycott, withdrawing their catalogs from Spotify last week to protest the platform’s choice to promote Joe Rogan. The controversy engulfs the creator’s most prominent platform, which has rules prohibiting dangerous misinformation and now facing calls to take action against one of its highest-profile users, Joe Rogan after he was accused of propagating incorrect information regarding Covid-19 on his show, including inviting a guest who Twitter had banned for spreading fake news about the vaccine. Major platforms have been caught in this mess at some point, and now it’s the turn of Spotify. Twitter and Donald Trump, Facebook and Alex Jones, Netflix and Dave Chappelle, YouTube and PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg). If this scenario seems familiar, it’s because it’s happened on every major internet media outlet in the last half-decade in some form.
Joe Rogan, an internet personality and the mega-popular podcast host known for his irreverent, anti-establishment views, has recently become the subject of a heated backlash after critics accuse him of promoting dangerous Covid-19 misinformation on his show. The relationship between media personalities and the networks that showcase their work has always been tense.
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