Harry and Meghan’s signing with the Spotify’s audio division was first announced in December 2020 and they are currently hiring a new team to produce a weekly show with Archewell featuring “high-profile women.” At the time of announcing the deal, the royal pair-who have spent the past two years working to address the real-time global misinformation crisis-said in a statement, “ will host and produce podcasts that build community through shared experience, narratives, and values.In 2008, Spotify changed the way we listen to music when it launched with millions of tracks and podcast titles on its free and premium versions. In December, more than 250 scientists and physicians sent an open letter to Spotify condemning them for amplifying “misleading and false claims”. Rogan has regularly been criticized by medical and scientific communities for spreading dangerous conspiracy theories and misinformation about coronavirus, including claiming healthy young people don’t need vaccination and promoting the use of medication made for parasites in livestock as an effective treatment.
But a leaked internal memo revealed the company had already reviewed every Rogan episode and none “met the threshold for removal”. Last month Spotify shared they removed a total of 20,000 assorted podcast episodes for breaking content guidelines, which include a ban on “content that promotes dangerous false or deceptive content about healthcare that may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health”.
Time will only tell how Spotify’s promised changes will affect Joe Rogan's content. Hall of Fame musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell both pulled their entire back catalogs from Spotify in protest last week-a move that resulted in the streaming company’s market capitalization falling more than $2.1 billion in the span of three days. Spotify’s loyalty to the Joe Rogan Experience, which pulls in over 11 million listeners per episode, had already resulted in several big names leaving the media provider. Ek added that Spotify will be working to add a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about Covid-19 and “begin testing ways to highlight our Platform Rules in our creator and publisher tools to raise awareness around what’s acceptable and help creators understand their accountability.”
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