Spotify ICE Ad Sparks Boycott: Could It Rival ‘Cancel Disney’? | HuffPost Life

Beyond Spotify, HBO Max, TBS, Pandora, Peacock and Hulu are some of the popular streaming services that have run ICE ads, according to users listening to these ads or confirmed by the companies themselves...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cancel-spotify-ice-ad-streaming_l_6900edc5e4b0c18d32b71f0b 

 

Spotify Has a Much Bigger Problem Than Joe Rogan | Time

"This isn't a First Amendment issue. I'm as fierce a defender as you will find of freedom of speech. Joe Rogan and his guests have the right to believe and say anything they'd like, without fear of government reprisal. But the Constitution doesn't give them the right to spout misinformation on any platform they choose. Spotify, as a private company, gets to make its own rules, to make choices about what it allows and doesn't on its own air. What it doesn't get to do is set rules and then pretend it isn't responsible for enforcing them."…

https://time.com/6144176/spotify-joe-rogan-controversy/

What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem : NPR

…The medical and scientific experts slammed Rogan's track record of airing false claims about the coronavirus pandemic, vaccines and unproven treatments, calling it "a sociological issue of devastating proportions." Spotify, they say, has enabled him...

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074442185/joe-rogan-doctor-covid-podcast-spotify-misinformation

‘Menace to public health’: 270 doctors criticize Spotify over Joe Rogan’s podcast

Rogan, who has been described by the New York Times as "one of the most consumed media products on the planet", has legions of devoted followers but throughout the pandemic has repeatedly spread misleading and false claims.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/14/spotify-joe-rogan-podcast-open-letter