Spotify responds to Joe Rogan controversy

Spotify will add Covid-19 content advisories to podcast episodes that discuss Covid-19 following criticism of the platform’s handling of the controversial content in the ‘Joe Rogan Experience’, reports The Verge.

To increase transparency around its treatment of the issue, Spotify is making its Covid-19 content policy and general platform rules publicly available on its site. Spotify says anyone who breaks the rules may have the content in question removed, with repeat offenders potentially having their accounts suspended or banned.

Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Nils Lofgren have all had their music removed from the platform in protest of Rogan’s podcast, where he has suggested that healthy young people don’t need the Covid-19 vaccine.