In that talk, Rogan said it’s “very strange” that anyone would call themselves Black unless they’re from the “darkest place” of Africa. Her comments follow a controversial interview that Rogan, 54, had last month with Jordan Peterson, a conservative YouTube personality.

Singer and podcaster India Arie said she intends to leave Spotify because of Rogan’s “language around race,” she wrote in a note on Instagram, signaling the backlash is spreading beyond Covid misinformation. Other issues surrounding Spotify’s content have also began to bubble to the surface this week. Yet it remains to be seen whether those actions will be enough to quell the uproar. Rogan also posted a 10-minute video on Instagram in which he vowed to bring more balance to his show. Spotify earlier this week outlined steps it will take to halt the spread of misleading information about COVID-19 on its audio-streaming service. Meanwhile, some social media users have said they are deleting the app.Īcademics and other experts on misinformation said the company may soon face the tricky - and largely uncharted - world of corporate content moderation, much in the same vein that social-media giants Facebook, now called Meta Platforms Inc., and Twitter Inc. His pushback has also led to larger questions about the streaming service’s support for Rogan and its responsibility for monitoring content distributed on its platform to hundreds of millions of listeners.

Since then, a small but growing cadre of artists has followed Young’s lead.

Not both.” A day later, Young announced his music would come off the platform. In a letter posted on his website, Young wrote: “ They can have Rogan or Young. He accused the streamer’s star podcaster, Joe Rogan, of spreading vaccine misinformation on his show, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” The streaming giant has faced mounting criticism after singer-songwriter Neil Young followed through on threats to remove his music from Spotify.

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