Over the weekend, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek published a piece via the company’s news blog attempting to quell the raging dumpster fire his streaming platform has helped fuel for months by granting Rogan unfettered freedom to entertain objectively false COVID-19 remedies, transphobic intellectual grifters in tuxedos, and Carrot Top. Instead of, say, establishing a “no quackery” clause for its exclusive podcast clients that would prohibit them from promoting dangerous, easily debunked theories related to the pandemic and climate change, Ek vowed to... warn listeners that the episode they are about to listen could possibly contain disprovable content.
“You’ve had a lot of questions over the last few days about our platform policies and the lines we have drawn between what is acceptable and what is not,” Ek wrote. “Based on the feedback over the last several weeks, it’s become clear to me that we have an obligation to do more to provide balance and access to widely-accepted information from the medical and scientific communities guiding us through this unprecedented time. These issues are incredibly complex.”
