![]() ![]() ![]() Many other podcasters are happy to espouse fringe views themselves, and to have them distributed to a potential audience of nearly 400 million Spotify users. Hundreds of concerned doctors have accused Rogan of allowing his interviewees to spread misinformation about the pandemic, and some of his interviewees air views many people find offensive. The families of the children have been subjected to years of harassment by people who believe these claims. For years Jones spread the claim that the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut, in which 20 children were murdered, was “completely fake” (he has since acknowledged that the shooting was real in a sworn deposition as part of a defamation case). This approach is most obvious in the three hours of airtime Rogan and Spotify gave to the prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in October 2020. His affable, just-asking-questions approach is commercially astute: it allows him to profit from the attention-grabbing power of conspiracy theories and political extremism, without needing actually to express them himself. He is the platform’s most popular podcaster in the US and UK. Rogan, a former stand-up comedian and Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator, signed a deal thought to be worth $100m to bring his long-running podcast to Spotify. Spotify has removed Neil Young’s music from its platform this morning, apparently at Young’s request, after the singer stated he did not want to share a platform with the podcaster Joe Rogan, whom he accused of “spreading fake information against vaccines”. ![]()
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