Here’s one data point: My brother-in-law just texted me asking for recommendations for a new streaming service.
Sure enough, the list of people criticizing Spotify over its Rogan deal - and the content Rogan has put out since then - includes Spotify’s own employees, who complained that his podcast is transphobic, and 270 doctors and other health experts, who wrote an open letter saying Rogan’s podcasts were “mass-misinformation events” that have been “provoking distrust in science and medicine” during the pandemic, for hosting the likes of Robert Malone, an anti-vaxxer who’s been banned by Twitter.Īnd now rock star Neil Young, who said those doctors’ open letter opened his eyes to the “dangerous life-threatening Covid falsehoods found in Spotify programming,” has taken his music off the service in protest. Because a big part of Rogan’s appeal - we don’t know how big his audience is, but double-digit millions seems reasonable - is courting controversy by interviewing the likes of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Other times it’s really easy: Back in the spring of 2020, it was incredibly obvious that by paying Joe Rogan a ton of money for the exclusive rights to his podcast, Spotify would inevitably find itself under fire. He has questioned the COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness and falsely suggested that millions of people had been hypnotized into believing that the vaccines work to prevent serious disease.Sometimes it’s hard to predict the future. Malone, an infectious disease specialist, has been banned for Twitter for spreading misinformation but has become a hero in the anti-vaccine community. Rogan provoked anger within the past month for interviewing Dr. The 76-year-old rocker’s music has more than 6 million listeners, according to his artist’s page on Spotify. Rogan’s podcast is wildly popular on Spotify. It may not be a choice Young’s management would want to force.
Young said Spotify “can have Rogan or Young. In his letter, Young made the request because Spotify “is spreading false information about vaccines - potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation,” according to Rolling Stone magazine. Representatives for Young and Spotify did not return repeated requests for comment on Tuesday.
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