(You can say vaccines kill people but not that they were designed to kill people, for example.) On Sunday, Spotify published the guidelines itself, making clear why Rogan didn’t break the rules. Thanks to sources inside the company, I broke the guidelines Spotify says it’s been adhering to for “years,” which, it turns out, are so broad that it’d be hard for Rogan to violate them. I wrote last Thursday about the reasons Spotify sided with Rogan over anyone else, but critically, and as we’ve covered routinely in this newsletter, a major open question remained: how are Spotify’s COVID-19 moderation guidelines structured, and what are its rules? We got an answer Friday. Since then, Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren also removed their catalogs. On Wednesday, Spotify hadn’t taken JRE down in any capacity, so Young made good on his word and removed his discography from the platform.
“By allowing the propagation of false and societally harmful assertions, Spotify is enabling its hosted media to damage public trust in scientific research and sow doubt in the credibility of data-driven guidance offered by medical professionals,” they wrote.Īpparently, musician Neil Young found and read this, and then himself issued a letter to Spotify asking it to remove Rogan’s work or lose his music. (Sign up here if you want that, too!) Let’s get right into it with a recap to start.įor those of you who have lives outside the Twitter media cycle, I’ll sum up the week in Joe Rogan drama: last month, doctors, nurses, and members of the broader scientific community, issued an open letter asking Spotify to take down a Joe Rogan Experience episode that they said spread misinformation about COVID-19. We’ll skip the regular news for now, with the Insiders getting all that sweet, sweet industry knowledge later this week. As you probably opened this newsletter knowing, I’m going to focus solely on the Joe Rogan / Spotify saga today with a longer column about what it all means.
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