By AFP
LOS ANGELES: Singer Joni Mitchell stated Friday she was pulling her music from Spotify over “lies” on the streaming service about Covid-19, simply days after fellow musical titan Neil Young did the identical.
In a put up on her web site, the “Big Yellow Taxi” singer stated she was supporting Young, who clashed with Spotify over its wildly in style “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.
“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” Mitchell wrote.
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
Mitchell’s web site additionally carried a replica of an open letter to Spotify by medics and different scientists calling on the corporate to determine a misinformation coverage to fight Rogan’s repeated falsehoods and conspiracy theories across the coronavirus pandemic.
There was no quick remark from Spotify.
Young, the voice behind “Heart of Gold” and “Harvest Moon,” yanked his music from Spotify this week after telling the service it had to decide on between him and Rogan.
He accused Spotify of “spreading fake information about vaccines — potentially causing death” by placing out Rogan’s podcast, which racks up hundreds of thousands of listens.
“Spotify has become the home of life-threatening COVID misinformation,” he wrote. “Lies being sold for money.”
“I realized I could not continue to support SPOTIFY’s life threatening misinformation to the music loving public.”
Young had over six million month-to-month listeners on the favored streaming platform. His fellow Canadian Mitchell at present has 3.7 million.
Rogan has a multi-year unique take care of Spotify, reportedly value $100 million, and an enormous following.
Critics say his podcast is a platform for conspiracy theories and disinformation, significantly over Covid-19.
Rogan has discouraged vaccination in younger individuals and promoted the off-label use of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to deal with the virus.
In an announcement this week, Spotify stated: “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to Covid since the start of the pandemic.”
“We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify,” the service stated, “but hope to welcome him back soon.”
