After Neil Young, Joni Mitchell also wants to remove all of her music from Spotify because he believes that son the platform there is excessive misinformation about Covid. There are some “irresponsible people who spread lies that are costing people’s lives“the Canadian singer said in a post on her official website. Neil Young said last Monday that the streaming platform must choose him or podcaster Joe Rogan, accused of spreading false information about Covid.
Joni Mitchell said she sympathizes with Neil Young, and with the “global medical and scientific communities”. The two have been friends for many years and are both survivors of the polio they contracted in the early 1950s, not long before a vaccine was available. Unlike Young, Mitchell didn’t mention Rogan, but he did refer to an open letter signed by a group of scientists and medical professionals, criticizing Spotify for hosting Rogan’s podcast, Joe Rogan Experience. The letter accuses Rogan of spreading a variety of misleading claims and causing distrust in science and medicine.
Spotify removed Neil Young’s songs from the platform on Wednesday, saying it hoped for the songwriter to return and announcing it had “removed over 20,000 Covid-related podcasts since the start of the pandemic.” The Joe Rogan Experience is Spotify’s most popular podcast, with 200 million downloads reported per month. The streaming platform is said to have paid $ 100 million for the rights.