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Spotify, YouTube and Twitter kicked off Steve Bannon after he suggested Dr. That has resulted in a messy patchwork of shows that have been banned on some tech platforms but are readily available elsewhere.Ĭonspiracy theorist Alex Jones is banned from Apple, Spotify, YouTube and Facebook – but not Google Podcasts. Instead, they have taken down individual podcasts that get bad press for violating stated policies or spreading conspiracy theories.

Major podcast companies have largely escaped scrutiny about misinformation. Even then, misinformation around politics and COVID-19 find big audiences in Facebook groups, on WhatsApp messages and Instagram. Meta, which owns Facebook, has enlisted the help of journalists, academics, thousands of contract employees and AI technology to detect misinformation.

They have not followed the steps of other tech companies like Facebook or Twitter that attempt to detect, fact-check and label misleading or false information. Podcast platforms have long struggled to moderate the shows broadcast on them. It has 44% of all podcast user market share – Apple, Amazon and Google are each less than half its size, according to Midia Research. “So I’ve been wrestling with how this perception squares with our values.”Īs it does with music streaming, Spotify dominates podcasting. “But perception due to our exclusive license implies otherwise,” Ek said. But Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek, has said that silencing him is not the answer.īesides, Ek said in a letter to employees late Sunday, Spotify is not the publisher of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” In an effort to expand scrutiny beyond musicians and listeners, folk-rock singer Neil Young urged Spotify employees late Monday to quit “before it eats up your soul.” Last week, Young pulled his music from Spotify after a group of doctors called out Rogan for his interview of a man who has spread COVID-19 misinformation.Īfter musician India.Arie revealed last week on Instagram that Rogan had repeatedly used the N-word, he apologized, and Spotify pulled dozens of past episodes from circulation. “They are acting like they should get treated as a platform – when they are acting like a media company,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media.