Many media companies either have to decide what kind of vision to put forward for professional editorial content - which is often edited before publication - or how to fairly moderate the content that users put on its services. Young backed them up Monday with his own ultimatum to Spotify, urging the company to stop “spreading fake information.”īut with growth comes responsibilities.
10 open letter demanding the service “immediately establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform,” likening Rogan’s most controversial episodes to “mass-misinformation events” of “devastating proportions” that provoke “distrust in science and medicine.” Spotify representatives have otherwise declined to comment about Rogan and its content-moderation practices since a group of more than 200 medical professionals, academics and others sent a Jan. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.” We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID since the start of the pandemic. “With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. He did not specifically reference Rogan or Young.“We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users,” Spotify said in a statement after the news was first reported in the Wall Street Journal. “It is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor while also making sure that there are rules in place and consequences for those who violate them.”Įk said that the advisories will link to Spotify’s fact-based COVID-19 hub in what he described as a “new effort to combat misinformation.” It will roll out in the coming days, Ek said.
“Personally, there are plenty of individuals and views on Spotify that I disagree with strongly,” wrote Ek. In a post Sunday, Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek laid out more transparent platform rules given the backlash stirred by Young, who on Wednesday had his music removed from Spotify after the tech giant declined to get rid of episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which has been criticized for spreading virus misinformation.
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