Over 70 episodes of 'The Joe Rogan Experience' were quietly removed from Spotify Friday
to any podcasts that discuss Covid-19, and that it would prohibit its contributors from “content that promotes dangerous false or dangerous deceptive medical information that may cause offline harm or poses a direct threat to public health.” Yet, the company denied the new measures were prompted by public backlash to Rogan’s podcast.
“I think the important part here is that we don’t change our policies based on one creator nor do we change it based on any media cycle, or calls from anyone else,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek“Our policies have been carefully written with the input from numbers of internal and external experts in this space. And I do believe they’re right for our platform. And while Joe has a massive audience — he is actually the number one podcast in more than 90 markets — he also has to abide by those policies.
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