Under increasing pressure to police false content on their platforms, these companies have tightened their rules on vaccine misinformation. Technology companies have invested in human content moderators as well as artificial intelligence technology over the past few years. Social media giants Facebook (FB.O), Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) YouTube and Twitter (TWTR.N) have struggled with balancing the rights to free expression with moderating harmful content on their platforms amid intense regulatory scrutiny. Its new policies include adding an advisory to any pandemic-related podcast that will direct listeners to a COVID-19 hub containing information from medical and health experts, as well as links to authoritative sources.īut the task of content moderation that it has now been dragged into is very different from removing songs with copyright violations, a job that Spotify is familiar with.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said late on Sunday that he might disagree with the views of some individuals on the platform but that it was 'important to me that we don't take on the position of being content censor.' Although it has an exclusive license to distribute the podcast, Rogan himself owns the show.Īccording to the company, it reviewed the episodes and decided that they did not meet its threshold for removal. Spotify, which reports its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, has spent billions to build its podcast business and currently has over 3 million titles on its platform. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell also asked for her music to be taken off Spotify, citing a letter from hundreds of medical professionals urging the platform to prevent Rogan spreading falsehoods on the pandemic. Rogan is a prominent vaccine skeptic and his views on vaccines and government mandates to control the spread of the virus alienated prominent figures from singer-songwriter Neil Young to guitarist Nils Lofgren to best-selling U.S. 'I will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people's perspectives so we can maybe find a better point of view.' 'If I pissed you off, I'm sorry,' Rogan said. In a 10-minute Instagram video post on Sunday evening, Rogan apologized to Spotify for the backlash but defended inviting contentious guests. Joe Rogan in attendance at UFC 249 in Jacksonville, Florida.

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