Prince Harry and spouse Meghan Markle have reached out to Spotify with “concerns” over “COVID-19 misinformation on its platform.” The information comes throughout a rising outcry over the corporate’s relationship with controversial podcaster Joe Rogan, who has unfold, in keeping with 200 docs who’re additionally outraged, misinformation about COVID vaccines on his Spotify-hosted podcast.
“Last April, our co-founders began expressing concerns to our partners at Spotify about the all too real consequences of COVID-19 misinformation on its platform,” a spokesperson for the couple’s firm, Archewell, stated in an announcement. “We have continued to express our concerns to Spotify to ensure changes to its platform are made to help address this public health crisis.” The assertion added: “We look to Spotify to meet this moment and are committed to continuing our work together as it does.” Harry and Meghan aren’t the one high-profile abilities expressing concern. Read on to see who else is protesting in opposition to the platform, and who has left it fully—and to make sure your well being and the well being of others, do not miss these Sure Signs You’ve Already Had COVID
Unlike sure celebrities, Harry and Meghan will proceed to work with Spotify. The full assertion from the spokesman for Archewell stated: “Since the inception of Archewell, we have worked to address the real-time global misinformation crisis. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the serious harms of mis- and disinformation every day. Last April, our co-founders began expressing concerns to our partners at Spotify about the all too real consequences of Covid misinformation on its platform. We have continued to express our concerns to Spotify to ensure changes to its platform are made to help address this public health crisis. We look to Spotify to meet this moment and are committed to continuing our work together as it does.”
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Musician Neil Young was the primary to difficulty a public assertion in opposition to the corporate. “Spotify has recently become a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID,” Young wrote on his web site. “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. 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 truth….I realized I could not continue to support Spotify’s life threatening misinformation tot he music loving public.” He added: “Spotify has become the home of life threatening COVID misinformation. Lies being sold for money.”
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Joni Mitchell, who shares a supervisor with Young, and has carried out with him up to now, joined him in solidarity. “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue,” she stated in an announcement on her web site.
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Nils Lofgren, Bruce Springsteen’s guitarist, requested for his music to be pulled from the platform. “A few days ago, my wife Amy and I became aware of Neil and Daryl [Hannah]”—Young’s accomplice—”standing with hundreds of health care professionals, scientists, doctors and nurses in calling out Spotify for promoting lies and misinformation that are hurting and killing people,” he stated. “When these heroic women and men, who’ve spent their lives healing and saving ours, cry out for help you don’t turn your back on them for money and power. You listen and stand with them.”
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Brené Brown, the bestselling writer of Dare of Lead and Atlas of the Heart, hosts her podcast solely on Spotify and has put it on hiatus for now. “I cannot be releasing any podcasts till additional discover. To our #UnlockingUs and #DaretoLead communities, I’m sorry and I’ll let you understand if and when that adjustments. Stay awkward, courageous, and sort,” she tweeted, including two hearts and a fist-bump emoji.
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Iconic actress Hannah posted a message of assist for her accomplice Young. “So proud of this one standing up for his convictions since way back when of course #istandwithneilyoung&the frontline healthcare workers,” she wrote on Instagram, and continued: “sad to see some confuse censorship&free speech with the choice a private company has in deciding what they profit from a podcaster is free to say whatever they want Just as Neil is free to NOT have his music on a platform that makes $$$ of disinformation that harms folks ( thankfully it’s a small (though highly vocal community) However onward with peace love&music!!!”
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