Streaming giant announces policy on COVID-19 misinformation | Inside Story
Streaming giant announces policy on COVID-19 misinformation
Spotify says it will put content advisories before any podcasts that discuss the pandemic after misinformation row.
Spotify faces the music.
The company will put content advisories before any of its podcasts that discuss the pandemic.
Recommended Stories
list of 3 items- list 1 of 3Spotify to remove Neil Young music amid Joe Rogan COVID protest
- list 2 of 3Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young; pulls music in Spotify protest
- list 3 of 3Spotify to link COVID content to facts after ‘misinformation’ row
But it will not remove the episodes at the centre of the storm, which are hosted by COVID-19 vaccine sceptic Joe Rogan.
The measures fall short of what Rogan’s detractors wanted, including artists who pulled their songs from the platform.
How do companies tread the line between potentially harmful lies and healthy debate?
Host: Dareen Abughaida
Guests:
Jeffrey Lazarus – Head of the Health Systems Research Group, Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Catalina Goanta – Associate professor of law and technology, Utrecht University
Courtney Radsch – Fellow at the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy