The advisory will be placed on any podcast about the pandemic - regardless of whether it includes factual information or not, the company's statement suggested. On Sunday, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek addressed the controversy in a statement and said the company would 'add a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19,' which will link to a COVID-19 information hub with 'data-driven facts' and 'links to trusted sources.' Earlier this month, hundreds of doctors and scientists signed an open letter calling on Spotify to 'take action against the mass-misinformation events which continue to occur on its platform.' Rogan, whose podcast is the most popular one on Spotify, has discouraged young people from getting vaccinated, promoted ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, railed against vaccine requirements, and welcomed staunch anti-vaxxers as guests on the show. Spotify became the exclusive owner of The Joe Rogan Experience in 2020, after signing a $100 million deal with the host. “Spotify has become the home of life threatening COVID misinformation.

“I realized I could not continue to support Spotify's life threatening misinformation to the music loving public,” Young wrote in a letter explaining his decision. Spotify lost more than $2 billion in market value over the controversy but began to recover on Monday. Online, some Spotify users have said they will boycott the platform and cancel their subscriptions, and have urged more influential artists like Taylor Swift to pull their libraries as well. In case you missed it (or were wondering why you suddenly couldn't stream Harvest Moon), calls to take action on the streaming platform's top podcast reached a breaking point last week after Neil Young and Joni Mitchell removed their music from Spotify in protest, with some additional artists and podcasters following suit.

“If I pissed you off,” Rogan said in a video posted to his Instagram on Sunday, “I’m sorry.” (It’s not clear whether the advisory will warn listeners whether the episode promotes junk science or not.) And Rogan said he will try reeeally hard to have guests “with differing opinions” on his show. Spotify said it was planning to slap a “content advisory” on Rogan’s episodes that include discussions about COVID-19 with links to verified information. After repeatedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, Joe Rogan and the CEO of Spotify said Sunday night they would address the brewing controversy - by adding some warning labels and with a vague promise to “balance things out.”

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