Spotify decides to take down Neil Young songs over Joe Rogan Covid vaccination misinformation row

By Online Desk

Spotify has determined to take away Neil Young music honouring the musician’s request to take action over its relationship with star podcaster Joe Rogan’s feedback about vaccinations.

Neil Young, the Heart of Gold singer had posted a letter, since deleted, to his administration staff and document label demanding to take away his music from Spotify, since, Young added, Spotify is spreading pretend details about vaccines probably inflicting demise to those that imagine the disinformation being unfold by them.

“I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continued. “They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.”

On his podcast, Rogan has made frequent false and inaccurate claims surrounding vaccines and Covid-19. Earlier this month, a bunch of greater than 250 scientists, docs and nurses penned an open letter to Spotify condemning the streamer for platforming Rogan and calling on Spotify to warn its listeners about misinformation.

The singer reportedly has 6.1 m month-to-month listeners on Spotify.

Now, the streaming large mentioned it tried to realize stability and had eliminated over 20,000 podcast episodes associated to Covid-19 for the reason that begin of the pandemic.

“We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.

“With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators.”

It added: “We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.”