This whole Joe Rogan experience has been so exhausting that it’s reduced me to making wordplay jokes on his controversial, $100 million podcast’s title as a distraction from how infuriating it is watching Spotify do virtually nothing to address the show’s ongoing COVID misinformation, transphobia, and past casual uses of racial epithets. And yet, The Joe Rogan Experience keeps forcing us to experience it.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is very sorry about the ongoing controversies. “Deeply sorry,” in fact. But that’s about all he is, according to his letter written to employees and shared by a spokesperson to The Wall Street Journal earlier today. “There are no words I can say to adequately convey how deeply sorry I am for the way The Joe Rogan Experience controversy continues to impact each of you,” Ek writes, before stipulating that he wants to “make one point very clear — I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer.”
