Science Vs began on Australian public broadcasting in 2015, moved to Gimlet Media the following year, and was acquired with the rest of Gimlet by Spotify in 2019.

A podcast protestįirst, a little backstory. And it appears that Spotify has made sufficient tentative progress on limiting the spread of misinformation to mollify at least one group’s concerns. Even the White House got involved.īut one key source of resistance was internal - both from employees in general and from one of Spotify’s other podcasts, Science Vs. Not both.” Others with Spotify deals - Roxane Gay, Ava DuVernay, Brené Brown - ended or paused them. In December, around 270 doctors, researchers and other health care professionals in a range of fields signed an open letter calling on Spotify to introduce measures to address misinformation about the virus on its platform.After Spotify’s Joe Rogan Experience released a widely derided episode that made covid vaccines sound as safe as Russian roulette - with a guest who argued the vacinated were victims of “ mass formation psychosis,” a thing that does not exist - there was pushback from many corners.Ī group of doctors and scientists said Spotify enabled Rogan “to damage public trust in scientific research and sow doubt in the credibility of data-driven guidance offered by medical professionals.” Rocker Neil Young famously took his music off the service, saying, “They can have Rogan or Young. Rogan has faced backlash over the course of the pandemic for repeatedly sharing and providing a platform for misinformation around the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccines. He also said he wanted to thank the streaming service for 'being so supportive during this time' and lamented that it was 'taking so much heat' over the issue. In his video statement, Rogan said he was supportive of Spotify's decision to introduce content advisories.

He also said Spotify would be publishing its 'long-standing Platform Rules,' which are now featured on the company's website, and said the streaming service would be 'testing ways' to highlight its rules to 'raise awareness around what’s acceptable and help creators understand their accountability for the content they post on our platform.'

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