They in turn denounce Joe Rogan’s podcast, which receives financial support from the streaming platform.
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Formerly reunited in a group that remained legendary, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash in turn asked for the withdrawal of their music from Spotify, Wednesday February 2, like their ex-companion Neil Young who provoked the movement last week. “We support and agree with Neil: Joe Rogan’s podcast on Spotify is dangerous misinformation”, write in a press release the three folk rock musicians whose group, “Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young”, was created in California in 1968.
Their former sidekick, American-Canadian Neil Young, has accused Spotify of disinformation about Covid-19 by hosting popular and controversial Joe Rogan’s podcast. The artist had asked on January 26 to remove his music from the streaming platform. “While committed to the expression of alternative opinions, knowingly spreading misinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences”, also believe David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash.
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“As long as we do not really act to show that there must be a balance between the [bien-être de] humanity and commerce, we don’t want our music – or the music we’ve played together – to be on this same platform.”, they conclude. Neil Young was also followed by Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell, leading to a movement on social networks to unsubscribe from Spotify. Britain’s Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan Markle – who signed an estimated $25 million deal with the platform – expressed “their worries” from the streaming giant.
—Stephen Stills Official (@Stephen__Stills) February 2, 2022
In an attempt to put out the fire, Spotify announced measures on Sunday, such as the introduction, in all its podcasts evoking the Covid-19, of links which will guide its users to factual and scientifically sourced information, according to its CEO. Daniel Ek.