Joe Rogan, a comedian and host of the hit podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for promoting Covid-19 misinformation. Spotify, which owns exclusive rights to Mr. Rogan’s show, has been criticized as the platform for the misinformation.
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell removed their music from Spotify in protest. Now, a compilation of video clips of Mr. Rogan using a racial slur on past episodes has surfaced, drawing more outrage.
We look into the scandal engulfing the streaming platform and its most popular podcast host.
Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times.
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Background reading:
- Kevin explains why the challenges presented by this scandal aren’t going away.
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02/11/22 • 44 min
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Helena Roth
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Feb 13
An explanation of sorts and yet - how I lack the perspective of ‘what happens when we don’t let people speak their mind’? What if we let behemoth organizations act as moral guardians? As a Swede, the ‘American moral anxiety’ ruling FB and Apple and the sorts has more than once gotten me a lot more worried than anything Joe Rogan can ‘throw’ at the world.
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