![]() “Rogan has showed time and time and again that he will misinform his audience on Spotify and won’t face any repercussions for doing so,” says Alex Paterson, a senior researcher with the left-wing campaign group Media Matters for America, who listened to over 300 hours of the podcast in 2021. Spotify has a hate speech policy on its website banning content that “expressly and principally promotes, advocates, or incites hatred or violence” against people based on characteristics such as race, sex, and sexual orientation. Spotify did not respond to a list of questions from The Independent seeking clarity on its policies surrounding misinformation. Yet no misinformation policy is listed in Spotify’s user guidelines or in summaries of prohibited content on the company website. It also claims to have removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. The streaming service has previously told news outlets that it bans “false or dangerous deceptive content about COVID-19, which may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health.” In some instances, Rogan’s words appeared to break with what Spotify has said publicly about Covid-19 misinformation. It’s the latest example of Rogan and his guests appearing to have free rein to spread false claims and conspiracy theories, which in the past have spanned topics from the coronavirus vaccine and Dr Anthony Fauci to transgender people. In a four-hour interview, broadcast on Tuesday, he gave the self-help author and anti-feminist mystic, Dr Jordan Peterson, a platform to claim without evidence that climate science has no basis in reality, and that solar power kills more people than nuclear. ![]() This week, Rogan once again proved the tricky balancing act for Spotify. Its flagship grab is undoubtedly The Joe Rogan Experience, Spotify’s number one podcast, whose colourful and free-wheeling host was paid a reported $100m in early 2020 for exclusive rights to his show. ![]() But the Swedish-based, public company is now being forced to grapple with questions of its responsibility over misinformation and pseudoscience as it makes exclusive multimillion-dollar deals with popular podcasters. Audio streaming platforms like Spotify have so far escaped a similar level of scrutiny. ![]()
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