#cancelspotify #Spotifydeleted #SpotifyPremium /zsNG2ur7nQĪ week later, following Spotify's tepid response to Young's move, he published a second open letter in which he urges Spotify employees and musicians to “get out of that place before it eats up your soul”.
Goodbye You’ve chosen profits and greed over science, ethics and doing the right thing. Twitter was dotted with fans’ announcements that they were canceling their subscriptions. “I stand with Neil Young” and “#CancelSpotify” became rallying calls on social media. These young people believe Spotify would never present grossly unfactual information. In his own open letter, Young underscored the danger of misinformation: “Most of the listeners hearing the unfactual, misleading, and false COVID information on Spotify are 24 years old, impressionable and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth. The public health experts wrote in their open letter that the podcast promoted “several falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines.” He did so after a group of hundreds of scientists, professors, and medical professionals wrote an open letter asking Spotify to take down an episode of Rogan’s show featuring virologist Dr. Neil Young called on Spotify to choose between him or Rogan, accusing the platform of spreading “deadly misinformation about COVID.” It all began when US podcaster Joe Rogan came under fire last week for spreading what has been widely criticized as misinformation about COVID-19 on his Spotify audio program, The Joe Rogan Experience. In an effort to take a stand against vaccine misinformation being spread on Spotify, Young, Mitchell, and guitarist Nils Lofgren ordered that their music be removed from the streaming platform in an act of protest, while Brené Brown paused her podcast and the Sussexes say they have continued to express concerns to Spotify, warning of the “serious harms” of false information. Over a week later and Spotify remains mired in the so-called "Joe Rogan controversy." The latest development of the saga is that web traffic to the streaming platform's cancellation page has spiked. Musical icons Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and David Crosby as well as Roxane Gay, Mary Trump, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, are among prominent figures calling out the spread of vaccine misinformation online, in a movement that’s been rapidly escalating in recent days. 10 with additional details as further artists support the movement. Editor's note: This article was originally published on Jan.