
Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. She also shared a clip of the host comparing walking into a cinema in a black neighbourhood to walking “into the Planet of The Apes”.During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. Spotify recently removed over 113 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast after a compilation of clips shared by singer India Arie went viral highlighting multiple occasions where Rogan used the N-word on his podcast. The streaming platform has been embroiled in a controversy over Rogan’s podcast since a group of doctors, scientists, and experts published an open letter vilifying Rogan’s decision to host prominent anti-vax voices and for his personal comments on vaccines and pandemic-era health policies. READ MORE: Daniel Ek says Spotify’s content policy should have been public sooner: “We should’ve done it earlier and that’s on me”.Besides adding COVID-19 health warnings and advisories to podcasts, Spotify has also made podcast content guidelines public in order to establish what content is and is not actionable. Spotify has recently announced a raft of initiatives to combat the accusations that it has allowed misinformation to fester unprohibited on its platform.


He applauded Young for taking the stand in the first place as it “is a position that’s completely consistent with the way that he’s conducted himself with his fan base.” Mercuriadis added that while he does not support any action to “cut off” Rogan, he backed Spotify’s move to add COVID-19 health warnings to podcasts that may contain disinformation.
