They wrote: "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." Last week, some 270 doctors, scientists, healthcare professionals and professors wrote an open letter to Spotify, expressing concern about medical misinformation on Rogan's show. Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy,” Young wrote.
“With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence. On Thursday, Spotify said the company has “detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic”.Earlier this week, Young posted a letter on his website (since removed), saying: “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines - potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. He has falsely suggested that millions of people have been hypnotised into believing that the vaccines work to prevent serious disease, and has suggested that hospitalised are financially incentivised to wrongfully diagnose deaths as caused by COVID-19. Last month, Rogan interviewed Dr Robert Malone, an infectious disease specialist who has been banned from Twitter for spreading COVID misinformation. Rogan, a TV host, comedian, and MMA commentator, has repeatedly stirred controversy with his views on the pandemic, government mandates and vaccines to control the spread of the coronavirus.
In May 2020, Rogan, 54, signed an exclusive deal with Spotify reportedly worth more than $100m for his show “The Joe Rogan Experience”, which remains the top-rated programme on the platform.
“These young people believe Spotify would never present grossly unfactual information,” he said.
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