On being asked about the platform’s COVID content advisory during her daily press briefing, Psaki stated that the streaming platform could take more steps to address the misinformation.
Jen Psaki said,
The press secretary elaborated,
Spotify’s response to Joe Rogan and his guests’ on the JRE podcast’s misinformation allegations
Amidst Joe Rogan’s controversy, Spotify lost over $2 billion in late January. While there may have been several factors behind this, it is safe to assume that certain groups of investors are rightfully spooked over the music streaming giant’s involvement with the current controversies.
In an official press release, the firm’s CEO Daniel Ek said:
During his interview with CNBC on February 3, Ek insinuated that the firm’s responses to the scientific community’s demands were adequate. Earlier in the week, the CEO expressed his opinions regarding the policy change in the earnings call to Investors. He said,
He further assured the investors that Joe Rogan, despite being the world’s most popular podcaster, has to abide by their policies. Later in the week, reports claimed that 100+ episodes of the JRE Podcast had been removed from the platform policy violations.
During his interview with CNBC, Ek acknowledged that the firm should have publicly disclosed its content policies regarding guidelines sooner.
Ahead of the platform’s earnings call, JRE host Joe Rogan apologized to the scientific community in an Instagram video. The controversy sparked when 270 medical professionals wrote an open letter to Spotify regarding pandemic-related misinformation.
Updates to the content guidelines by Spotify following the controversy
On January 31, the music streaming platform amended its guidelines to incorporate multiple rules for content with COVID-19 information. As per the updated guidelines, no content can claim that diseases like AIDS and COVID-19 are hoaxes.
Furthermore, the platform will also not allow content that promotes that vaccines are designed to cause deaths. Similarly, content that supports deliberate COVID-29 infection to build immunity is also prohibited. Spotify also barred content that “promotes dangerous false or dangerous deceptive medical information”.
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