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Following criticism of Spotify's handling of the contentious content in the Joe Rogan Experience, the company will now include COVID-19 content cautions to podcast episodes that reference COVID-19. The link will take you to Spotify's COVID-19 center, which has accurate and up-to-date information on the pandemic. Spotify is making its COVID-19 content policy and general platform guidelines public on its site to promote openness regarding its management of the problem.
Anyone who breaches the rules may have their material deleted, and repeat offenders may have their accounts suspended or banned, according to Spotify. An internal letter indicated that Joe Rogan's podcast didn't "meet the bar for removal," according to the guideline acquired before of the platform's public rollout. Spotify restricts anything that claims "AIDS, COVID-19, cancer, or other major life-threatening diseases are a hoax or not genuine," according to the policy. Information that encourages individuals to "purposefully become infected with COVID-19 in order to gain immunity" is likewise prohibited, as is content that implies vaccinations are "intended to cause death."
However, when compared to the internal paper seen by The Verge, the phrasing on instances has altered, and one line has been removed altogether. "Suggesting that wearing a mask will cause the wearer urgent, life-threatening bodily injury," it said. In a blog post, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek states, "You've had a lot of questions over the last several days regarding our platform standards and the boundaries we've set between what is acceptable and what is not." "We've had guidelines in place for a long time, but we haven't been completely upfront about the regulations that govern our material in general.
Based on the feedback I've received over the last few weeks, it's clear to me that we need to do more to provide balance and access to widely accepted information from the medical and scientific communities to help us navigate this historic period." Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Nils Lofgren all had their songs taken down from the site in response to Rogan's show, in which he stated that healthy young people don't need the COVID-19 vaccination, among other things. Brené Brown, a popular podcaster, has also announced that she will stop adding new episodes to her Spotify-only shows, though it's unclear whether the controversy surrounding Rogan is to blame.
