(Fellow Canadian) Joni Mitchell soon joined Young, and since then, many others have joined this “movement” to hold the Spotify platform accountable for the damage it did by granting play to such damaging information. But today at least, I won’t.Many of you are following this story, but for those who aren’t: A few weeks ago, the venerable and beloved rock icon Neil Young left Spotify in protest of COVID-19 disinformation promoted by Spotify’s highly paid and enormously popular podcaster, Joe Rogan. The platforms sharing these rewards can continue to look the other way. They will be well rewarded for their efforts. Joe Rogan and others like him can continue to proudly encourage misinformation and bigotry to vast audiences.
“I am not trying to impede anyone’s freedom to speak. “It was a difficult decision - there are a lot of listeners on the platform, and I may never recoup that audience elsewhere,” she concluded. She pulled her podcast and its archives as of Tuesday, but it will be available elsewhere. She joins musicians Joni Mitchell and Neil Young in taking material off Spotify. And misinformation has helped prolong the Covid-19 pandemic and encouraged people to do dangerous things such as injecting bleach or taking Ivermectin, a horse deworming paste.” She commented on the dangerous effects of misinformation: “Misinformation has contributed to tens of millions of people believing the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
“When we say, as a society, that bigotry and misinformation are unacceptable, and that people who espouse those ideas don’t deserve access to significant platforms, that’s curation.” “When we are not free to express ourselves, when we can be thrown in jail or even lose our lives for speaking freely, that is censorship,” she wrote.
Gay emphasized that she is not for censorship but for curation, and she explained the difference between the two. Something she didn’t mention is that Rogan often features anti-transgender rhetoric. “Sometimes, racism is sprinkled in his conversations, just to keep things interesting,” she noted. Rogan sometimes says he is simply curious, which is “a convenient way of shirking accountability for misleading people about their life-or-death health decisions,” she continued.
On The Joe Rogan Experience, the host has made “false claims that Covid vaccines are ‘essentially a gene therapy’” and featured guests who offer “dangerous misinformation about Covid and other topics,” Gay wrote in Thursday’s New York Times. Black queer feminist author Roxane Gay has pulled her podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda, from Spotify because the platform continues to carry Joe Rogan, whose podcast spreads misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.
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