The uproar caused by Young’s protest prompted Spotify to finally issue a statement on Sunday. In a post on Sunday, Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek laid out more transparent platform rules given the backlash stirred by Young, who on Wednesday had his music removed from Spotify after the tech giant declined to get rid of episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, which has been criticised for spreading coronavirus misinformation.Late last week, after a series of open letters to Spotify imploring the streaming audio site to cut host Joe Rogan loose from its podcast roster over vaccinated-related misinformation, legendary musician Neil Young voluntarily removed his music from the platform. It comes after singer-songwriters Neil Young and Joni Mitchell removed their music from Spotify in protest against the popular streaming service allowing the airing of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. Rogan additionally welcomed the idea of adding advisories before podcasts related to COVID-19. Rogan noted that he earlier sat down on the show with Dr Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for CNN, Dr Michael Osterholm, who is a member of President Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisory board, and Dr Peter Hotez from Baylor College of Medicine. He also said that he schedules the guests on his podcast himself, and that he would try to book doctors with different opinions right after he talks to "the controversial ones". "I've never tried to do anything with this podcast other than to just talk to people." “I'm not trying to promote misinformation, I'm not trying to be controversial,” Rogan said.
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