theverge.com/2022/1/30/22909432/spotify-covid-19-moderation-joe-rogan-vaccine-misinformation

Spotify will now add COVID-19 content advisories to podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19 following criticism of the platform’s handling of the controversial content in the Joe Rogan Experience. The advisory will lead to Spotify’s COVID-19 hub, which contains credible and up-to-date information about the pandemic.

To increase transparency around its treatment of the issue, Spotify is making its COVID-19 content policy and general platform rules publicly available on its site. Spotify says anyone who breaks the rules may have the content in question removed, with repeat offenders potentially having their accounts suspended or banned. The Verge obtained this policy ahead of the platform’s public release, and an internal memo revealed that Joe Rogan’s podcast didn’t “meet the threshold for removal.”

According to the policy, Spotify prohibits content that asserts “AIDS, COVID-19, cancer or other serious life threatening diseases are a hoax or not real.” The platform also bans content that encourages people “to purposely get infected with COVID-19 in order to build immunity” and doesn’t allow content that suggests vaccines “are designed to cause death.” However, compared to the document posted internally and viewed by The Verge, the wording on examples has changed, and one line is missing entirely. It specifically called out “Suggesting that wearing a mask will cause the wearer imminent, life-threatening physical harm.”

That’s it. I’m pulling my music off Spotify

It’s amazing that we’re more critical of Joe Rogan on YouTube and Spotify than we ever were of Donald Trump on the news

That’s such a typical pseudo "We are adressing the criticism“ move and it works everytime

did u forget the bit where he got banned off of every major social media platform and had every tweet scrutinized and roasted by eugene gu and co.

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niggas crying about the wrong things...

im crying about not getting Ws in apex legends and these lames crying about some podcast. World is chalked!

Too late

Apple better

Lmao this podcast is rated M for Misinformation

Who cares holy s***

So lame

Well I agree but Twitter did this same exact thing bc of him so idk why you say this now

well this whole thing is stupid anyway. imo they need not address it at all, but profits

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#TeamRogan btw

Yea Spotify should not even address this s*** at all. I bet the people complaining are less than 1% of their whole userbase and now Spotify is just giving more power to them

surprised this happened after just those 2 artists tbh but maybe a sizable bunch of people actually unsubscribed

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Useless

people actually care about this?

Yes the last days of his presidency lmfao

Not when he was threatening to bomb Iranian cultural sites.. which is literally a textbook example of tetrorism

this will definitely hamper misinformation spread like those covid fact banners that other social medias are doing.