I’m very happy with that,” he said.īritain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, who have signed a multi-year deal to produce and host podcasts for Spotify under their production company Archewell Audio, on Sunday urged Spotify to tame virus misinformation. Young’s decision to leave Spotify may not last forever, but it has raised awareness of the harms of COVID-19 misinformation.Rogan welcomed the idea of adding advisories before podcasts related to COVID-19. In between episodes on health and fitness, Rogan will bring on guests who discredit the COVID-19 vaccine as though it’s part and parcel of the same worldview, the organization said. The media watchdog Media Matters notes that young men are drawn to the podcast because of Rogan’s affiliation with mixed martial arts (MMA) and gym culture. Each episode of Rogan’s podcast draws roughly 11 million listeners with an audience that skews young and male. The impact of this messaging is hard to overstate, according to the open letter of scientists. He has brought on numerous guests who present themselves as medical experts who go on to spread COVID-19 misinformation. Rogan has cast doubt on the vaccine for months and even encouraged his fans to avoid getting it if they’re young and healthy. This gets supercharged by prominent voices, according to the WHO. The World Health Organization calls this an “ infodemic.” Since its onset, the infodemic turned what might have been a unifying public health crisis that people rally around into a divisive and mean-spirited political brawl. As physicians, we bear the arduous weight of a pandemic that has stretched our medical systems to their limits and only stands to be exacerbated by the anti-vaccination sentiment woven into this and other episodes of Rogan’s podcast.”ĬOVID-19 misinformation has been a primary obstacle in the global effort to vaccinate populations and overcome the pandemic. As educators and science communicators, we are tasked with repairing the public’s damaged understanding of science and medicine. As scientists, we face backlash and resistance as the public grows to distrust our research and expertise. “Mass-misinformation events of this scale have extraordinarily dangerous ramifications. Malone’s interview has reached many tens of millions of listeners vulnerable to predatory medical misinformation,” they wrote. Robert Malone, a widely discredited doctor, makes various false claims about the vaccine, including that doctors hypnotized people into getting the shot. 31, 2021, singled out an episode of Rogan’s podcast in which Dr. The medical professionals who wrote the original open letter, dated Dec. In a 2020 interview with the Financial Times regarding the same podcast, Ek said Spotify is “not looking to play a role in what should say.” “And it doesn't matter if you're Joe Rogan or anyone else, we do apply those policies.” “We obviously review all the content that goes up,” he said in a Thursday earnings call, according to Business Insider. Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek said the company has no intention of taking down episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, a Spotify exclusive, because they do not violate its content policies. These young people believe Spotify would never present grossly unfactual information.
“Most of the listeners hearing the unfactual, misleading, and false COVID information on Spotify are 24 years old, impressionable, and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth. “I first learned of this problem by reading that 200-plus doctors had joined forces, taking on the dangerous, life-threatening COVID falsehoods found in Spotify programming,” Young wrote in a statement, referring to an open letter written by hundreds of medical professionals who urged Spotify to remove vaccine misinformation from its streaming services.
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