"But perception due to our exclusive license implies otherwise," Ek said. But Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek, has said that silencing him is not the answer.īesides, Ek said in a letter to employees late Sunday, Spotify is not the publisher of "The Joe Rogan Experience." In an effort to expand scrutiny beyond musicians and listeners, folk-rock singer Neil Young urged Spotify employees late Monday to quit "before it eats up your soul." Last week, Young pulled his music from Spotify after a group of doctors called out Rogan for his interview of a man who has spread COVID-19 misinformation.Īfter musician India.Arie revealed last week on Instagram that Rogan had repeatedly used the N-word, he apologized, and Spotify pulled dozens of past episodes from circulation. "They are acting like they should get treated as a platform-when they are acting like a media company," said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media. But experts say that is difficult to defend after Spotify reportedly spent $100 million to become the sole distributor of "The Joe Rogan Experience." Spotify wants to be viewed as a technology platform that has limited liability for the material that others create and stream through its service-a position shared by many social-media companies. That has left Spotify trying to figure out how to keep podcaster Joe Rogan's millions of devoted fans happy without further alienating artists and listeners angry about him amplifying vaccine skeptics and using racial slurs. Podcasting has sprouted as an industry with few standards about policing offensive or misleading content.
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