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Mary McNamara

Mary McNamara: Spotify knows Joe Rogan's podcast is hurtful, but gosh, there's money to be made

Spotify just announced its newest podcast, "Sorry, Not Sorry," in which billionaire CEOs discuss the most effective ways to seem to apologize for profiting from content that is offensive in historically oppressive ways without actually doing anything about it.

Kicking things off is Spotify's own Daniel Ek in conversation with Netflix's Ted Sarandos.

OK, there is no such podcast. Yet. But it certainly looks as though they've been comparing notes. Ek used the weekend to take a page out of Sarandos' playbook by sending his employees a memo designed, one assumes, to keep his employees from taking the recent Joe-Rogan-on-Spotify controversy to a Dave-Chappelle-on-Netflix level.

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