Instead, they have taken down individual podcasts that get bad press for violating stated policies or spreading conspiracy theories. Major podcast companies have largely escaped scrutiny about misinformation.
Even then, misinformation around politics and COVID-19 find big audiences in Facebook groups, on WhatsApp messages and Instagram. Meta, which owns Facebook, has enlisted the help of journalists, academics, thousands of contract employees and AI technology to detect misinformation. They have not followed the steps of other tech companies like Facebook or Twitter that attempt to detect, fact-check and label misleading or false information. Podcast platforms have long struggled to moderate the shows broadcast on them. It has 44% of all podcast user market share - Apple, Amazon and Google are each less than half its size, according to Midia Research. “So I've been wrestling with how this perception squares with our values.”Īs it does with music streaming, Spotify dominates podcasting. “But perception due to our exclusive license implies otherwise,” Ek said. But Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek, has said that silencing him is not the answer.īesides, Ek said in a letter to employees late Sunday, Spotify is not the publisher of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” In an effort to expand scrutiny beyond musicians and listeners, folk-rock singer Neil Young urged Spotify employees late Monday to quit “before it eats up your soul.” Last week, Young pulled his music from Spotify after a group of doctors called out Rogan for his interview of a man who has spread COVID-19 misinformation.Īfter musician India.Arie revealed last week on Instagram that Rogan had repeatedly used the N-word, he apologized, and Spotify pulled dozens of past episodes from circulation. “They are acting like they should get treated as a platform - when they are acting like a media company,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media. But experts say that is difficult to defend after Spotify reportedly spent $100 million to become the sole distributor of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Spotify wants to be viewed as a technology platform that has limited liability for the material that others create and stream through its service - a position shared by many social-media companies. That has left Spotify trying to figure out how to keep podcaster Joe Rogan's millions of devoted fans happy without further alienating artists and listeners angry about him amplifying vaccine skeptics and using racial slurs. Podcasting has sprouted as an industry with few standards about policing offensive or misleading content. NEW YORK (AP) - Like Facebook and Twitter, Spotify is learning the limits of deflecting responsibility for what is said on its platform.
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