Despite the intense fighting, his CEO Spotify He defended the podcast platform of the controversial American commentator Joe Rogan, however, condemning some of his “harmful” statements, according to an email sent to employees.
The founder of the world’s largest platform, businessman Daniel Ek, also confirms that many of his podcasts Joe Rogan withdrew from the platform over the weekend, mostly those containing inappropriate racist statements.
“While I strongly condemn what Joe has said and endorse his decision to remove the podcast from our platform, they realize that some people want more. “And I want to make one thing clear: I do not think Joe’s silence is the answer,” Daniel Ek wrote in the email.
“We need to have clear lines for our content and act when they are violated, but silencing voices is a slippery slope.”
After “conversations” with Spotify and with his own thought “, Joe Rogan – who has a contract of $ 100 million with Spotify- “chose to withdraw some episodes from Spotify”, confirms Daniel Ek.
According to media reports, this is a total of 70 shows, where Joe Rogan uses the word “Negro”.
On Saturday, Joe Rogan “humbly and sincerely” apologized for “racist statements,” “for something I’m ashamed and sorry to speak in public.”
“I have never used that word to be a racist, because I am not a racist,” he said.
However, the podcast that provoked the reaction of Neil Young, who accused Spotify of not reacting to the misinformation, has remained on the platform.
Joe Rogan is accused of discouraging young people from getting vaccinated and promoting the use of an unapproved treatment, Ivermectin, against Covid.
More than 200 American health professionals recently sounded the alarm when Joe Rogan hosted Robert Malone, a doctor in the anti-vaccine circuit, on his show.
Both Neil Young and Johnny Mitchell and other artists withdrew from Spotify or threatened to do so in recent days, while a #DeleteSpotify boycott movement appeared on social media.
Trying to put out the fire, the Swedish platform announced last Sunday that it would take action to combat misinformation, adding links to valid information on its Covid-19-themed podcasts.
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