Following the decision of singers Neil Young and Johnny Mitchell to withdraw their music from Spotify, citing misinformation about COVID-19 spread on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the CEO of the streaming platform, Daniel Ek. .
Daniel Ek outlined the steps the company intends to take to address the misinformation about COVID-19, focusing on a plan to add content alerts to each episode of the podcast that includes a discussion on COVID-19.
“Warnings will direct listeners to the dedicated COVID-19 web site, which provides easy access to data-based data, up-to-date information shared by scientists, doctors, academics and public health authorities around the world, and links to trusted sources. »Refers to the announcement. “This new effort to combat misinformation will spread to countries around the world in the coming days. “As far as we know, this content alert is the first of its kind from a major podcast platform,” the statement said.
In addition, it is noted that the company has made the current rules of the platform transparent and visible to the public for the first time. The rules describe what may not be posted on Spotify, including “content that promotes dangerously false or dangerously misleading medical information that could cause offline harm or pose an immediate threat to public health.” Examples include claims that COVID-19 is “a hoax or not true” or “encouraging people to intentionally become infected with COVID-19 in order to become immune to it”. Policy violators risk removing content, and repeat offenders risk suspensions or account bans.
Brene Brown, author and researcher with her own podcast on Spotify, also announced that she is leaving the platform. “I will not release any podcasts until recently,” he wrote on Twitter. “I apologize to our communities #UnlockingUs and #DaretoLead and let you know if and when this changes,” he said.
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