{"id":90506,"date":"2022-02-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=90506"},"modified":"2022-02-08T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T14:47:52","slug":"113-episodes-of-joe-rogan-are-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/113-episodes-of-joe-rogan-are-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"113 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience are removed from Spotify but not for COVID misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disturbing videos of Joe Rogan are shared, Rogan apologizes, episodes are removed from Spotify and CEO Daniel Ek sends a memo to employees.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The last time we looked at this story,<\/a> Spotify and Joe Rogan both responded after Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and other artists removed their music from the streaming service due to COVID-19 misinformation on Spotify’s exclusive Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced changes such as highlighting their Platform Rules and adding content advisory labels to podcasts with discussions of COVID. Rogan agreed with these changes and going forward plans to feature guests with differing views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the story has developed further, with singer-songwriter India Arie removing her music and podcasts from Spotify, but not for COVID misinformation. The artist shared clips on her Instagram Stories<\/a> of Rogan in podcasts using the N-word over 20 times, as well as a clip of Rogan talking about seeing the film “Planet of the Apes in a predominantly Black neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listeners noticed Spotify had removed 113 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, including those of Rogan using the slur. Neither Spotify nor Rogan have made public comments around the removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Rogan posted a video to Instagram talking about the compilation of him saying the N-word, explaining the clips were taken out of context and weren’t used in a racist manner, however agrees now that regardless of context, he should have never used the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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