That may mean buying Young’s albums, and it certainly means letting Spotify know that you’re dissatisfied with their decision. If Spotify chooses Rogan over Young, hopefully Young’s fans – like me – will take a stand along with him. “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he wrote. Neil Young wants his music scrubbed from Spotify because of vaccine misinformation on the platformĪnd now Young is asking the company to act as well. (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP, File) Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP The little log structure from the 1850s lends its name to the album that resulted, just called "Barn." It will be released Friday along with a documentary of the same name directed by Young's wife Daryl Hannah. Young had a barn rebuilt in the Rockies and used it to reunite with his old backing band Crazy Horse. Neil Young poses for a portrait at Lost Planet Editorial in Santa Monica, Calif. Rogan’s misinformation campaign, which reaches millions of listeners, has been so dangerous that hundreds of public health officials have signed an open letter asking Spotify to intervene. On the show, Rogan and guests identified as experts have said that vaccination isn’t necessary for the young and healthy (they are) that ivermectin is an effective treatment for Covid ( it isn’t, and using it in large doses poses serious potential health risks) and that people who have Covid face health risks from getting vaccinated (they don’t). It was the most popular podcast on Spotify last year. In the now-deleted letter, Young seemed specifically incensed at sharing a streaming platform with podcaster Joe Rogan, whose show “The Joe Rogan Experience” was acquired by Spotify in 2020, in an exclusive deal worth more than $100 million. Frank Gironda, Young’s manager, did confirm to the Daily Beast that the two had discussed Young’s concerns and were “trying to figure this out right now.” He said that Young was “very upset about this disinformation.” “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”ĬNN has reached out to Young’s manager, his publicist at Warner Records and Spotify for comment. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” Young wrote in a letter to his management team, which was first reported by Rolling Stone and has now been deleted. I think it’s important to keep in mind that Joe Rogan spreading this misinformation has real-world consequences that can have really dire effects for marginalized people.Jill Filipovic Courtesy of Jill Filipovic That can take someone from being an everyday person suddenly being fed news and misinformation about QAnon and other right-wing lies. Let’s say you’re a young man listening to The Joe Rogan Experience, and you want to get tips on bodybuilding or how to eat healthfully, and then Rogan starts discussing that vaccines are a form of gene therapy with Ben Shapiro, and then perhaps you go to Ben Shapiro’s website, The Daily Wire, and there, you fall into a cesspool of hatred and bigotry, and once you click on a Daily Wire article, if you share it on Facebook, you’re just going to be led further and further down the far-right rabbit hole. One thing we’ve done at Media Matters is try to document how social media algorithms and far-right online communities can radicalize everyday people fairly easily.
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