Goodbye You’ve chosen profits and greed over science, ethics and doing the right thing. Twitter was dotted with fans’ announcements that they were canceling their subscriptions. “I stand with Neil Young” and “#CancelSpotify” became rallying calls on social media. These young people believe Spotify would never present grossly unfactual information. In his own open letter, Young underscored the danger of misinformation: “Most of the listeners hearing the unfactual, misleading, and false COVID information on Spotify are 24 years old, impressionable and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth.
The public health experts wrote in their open letter that the podcast promoted “several falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines.” He did so after a group of hundreds of scientists, professors, and medical professionals wrote an open letter asking Spotify to take down an episode of Rogan’s show featuring virologist Dr. Neil Young called on Spotify to choose between him or Rogan, accusing the platform of spreading “deadly misinformation about COVID.” It all began when US podcaster Joe Rogan came under fire last week for spreading what has been widely criticized as misinformation about COVID-19 on his Spotify audio program, The Joe Rogan Experience. In an effort to take a stand against vaccine misinformation being spread on Spotify, Young, Mitchell, and guitarist Nils Lofgren ordered that their music be removed from the streaming platform in an act of protest, while Brené Brown paused her podcast and the Sussexes say they have continued to express concerns to Spotify, warning of the “serious harms” of false information. Over a week later and Spotify remains mired in the so-called "Joe Rogan controversy." The latest development of the saga is that web traffic to the streaming platform's cancellation page has spiked. Musical icons Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and David Crosby as well as Roxane Gay, Mary Trump, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, are among prominent figures calling out the spread of vaccine misinformation online, in a movement that’s been rapidly escalating in recent days. 10 with additional details as further artists support the movement. Other artists followed suit, including Joni Mitchell and Roxane Gay.Editor's note: This article was originally published on Jan. 24 when musician Neil Young asked to have his music removed because of concerns that Rogan was promoting skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccines. The company had 31% of the 524 million music streaming subscriptions worldwide in the second quarter of 2021, more than double that of second-place Apple Music, according to Midia Research. Spotify reports having 406 million active monthly users, up nearly 20% from last year, and advertising has grown largely because of podcasting. Having Rogan on Spotify is like having a political party with Donald Trump as the presidential candidate and liberal Elizabeth Warren as vice president. "They need to settle up with Rogan, let him go to a home that will be consistent with who he is. The conservative Rogan stands in contrast to the much more liberal musicians who generate the bulk of Spotify's profits, he said. The bottom-line question should be pretty simple for Spotify, said Erik Gordon, a University of Michigan business and law professor. "This is a big moment of reckoning for entertainment and streaming platforms to see where the window is, what's over the line."
"There's some real self-examination to be doing beyond Joe," Wihbey said. The streaming site also has to decide whether offensive words are allowable elsewhere on its app, where songs with racist, homophobic and anti-immigrant messages are available, said John Wihbey, a Northeastern University professor and specialist in emerging technologies. He has the right to say what he wants,' that continues on the line where there is this implicit support to say racist things on these platforms," she said in an interview before Ek's letter. On race, the choice is between keeping Rogan and sending a message that society has become too "woke" or showing that Spotify is more attuned to a multiracial society, said Adia Harvey Wingfield, a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Whether Spotify continues to keep Rogan or cuts ties, the decision likely won't sit well with one side or the other in an increasingly polarized country.
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