Spotify’s star podcaster Joe Rogan has been feeding Covid lies and anti-vax propaganda to his millions of devoted listeners for months.
This week rock legend, Neil Young, gave Spotify an ultimatum: Kick Rogan off the platform or take down his songs. Spotify has so far sided with disinformation super-spreader Rogan.
Spotify’s profit-hungry execs obviously think thousands of people getting sick from Covid is a price worth paying to keep their biggest money-spinner on their books.
Let’s show them what a massive mistake they’ve made.
Join Neil Young and tell Spotify: “You can have me or Rogan but you can’t have both.” If enough of us threaten to cancel, we can force Spotify to change their minds.
Spotify: Kick Joe Rogan off or I’ll cancel my Spotify account
Rogan has made a string of dangerous claims on his show, actively discouraging young people from getting the vaccine. And he’s given airtime to cranks pushing outlandish lies that the pandemic was ‘planned’ and peddling discredited Covid treatments like the horse-deworming drug, Ivermectin.
Spotify says it needs to give creators freedom but the platform’s decision to give Rogan a free pass to push dangerous conspiracy theories which are undermining public health advice in the middle of a pandemic is indefensible.
The public backlash against Spotify is building - just last month over 270 medical professionals branded Spotify a menace to public health and demanded the company urgently publish a clear public policy on Covid disinformation on its platform.
Let’s hit Spotify’s greedy executives where it hurts. If thousands of us threaten to cancel our Spotify accounts, they’ll have to sit up and take notice.
Spotify: Kick Joe Rogan off or I’ll cancel my Spotify account
More information
An Open Letter to Spotify: A call from the global scientific and medical communities to implement a misinformation policy
31 December 2021.
31 December 2021.
Spotify Is Removing Neil Young Songs After He Complains of ‘Misinformation’
New York Times. 26 January 2022.
New York Times. 26 January 2022.
‘A Menace to Public Health’: Doctors Demand Spotify Puts an End to Covid Lies on ‘Joe Rogan Experience’
Rolling Stone. 12 January 2022.
Rolling Stone. 12 January 2022.