However, her reasons go beyond Rogan’s misinformation about Covid. Musician and podcaster India Arie said Tuesday that she is taking her content off Spotify. The three added, “until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music, or the music we made together, to be on the same platform.” Much of the backlash is warranted as Spotify hasn’t been. “While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences.” Furore over Joe Rogan’s podcast and Spotify’s subsequent misinformation policies and actions has come both internally and externally. “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast,” the three said in a statement on Crosby’s Twitter account Wednesday. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”ĭavid Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash also backed Young, their former band mate, by announcing that they want their music off Spotify. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell wrote on her website Friday. Not both,” the musician said.įollowing Young’s lead, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell said over the weekend that she, too, will remove her music from Spotify. Here’s a list of artists who have left Spotify because of Rogan:Īrguably the biggest name to pull content from Spotify, Neil Young said last week he wanted his music removed because the platform is “spreading fake information about vaccines - potentially causing death to those who believe this disinformation spread by them.”
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