Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and Brene Brown are the latest high-profile Spotify contributors to sound the alarm over a controversial podcast and COVID-19 misinformation.
07 December 2021, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Villingen-Schwenningen: The application app Spotify can be seen on the display of an iPhone SE. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa
. "We have had rules in place for many years but admittedly, we haven’t been transparent around the policies that guide our content more broadly."Spotify airs the popular podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience," where last month the comedian interviewed Dr. Robert Malone, an infectious disease specialist who has become a hero in the anti-vaccine community.
Ek said starting Sunday, the company will publish its long-standing Platform Rules for its content creators. The company will also add a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19. The advisory will guide listeners to a COVID-19 information hub with "easy access to data-driven facts, up-to-date information as shared by scientists, physicians, academics and public health authorities around the world.
Spotify previously said in a statement that "we have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic." The specific podcast in question was not addressed in this statement.The company says it has a team of experts that reviews content, and it’s removed if the information presented can cause harm or pose a direct threat to public health.
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