SPOTIFY: Spotify finally responds to Joe Rogan controversy with a plan to label podcasts that discuss COVID-19!!!

Following criticism of Spotify's handling of the contentious content in the Joe Rogan Experience, the company will now include COVID-19 content cautions to podcast episodes that reference COVID-19. The link will take you to Spotify's COVID-19 center, which has accurate and up-to-date information on the pandemic. Spotify is making its COVID-19 content policy and general platform guidelines public on its site to promote openness regarding its management of the problem.

Anyone who breaches the rules may have their material deleted, and repeat offenders may have their accounts suspended or banned, according to Spotify. An internal letter indicated that Joe Rogan's podcast didn't "meet the bar for removal," according to the guideline acquired before of the platform's public rollout. Spotify restricts anything that claims "AIDS, COVID-19, cancer, or other major life-threatening diseases are a hoax or not genuine," according to the policy. Information that encourages individuals to "purposefully become infected with COVID-19 in order to gain immunity" is likewise prohibited, as is content that implies vaccinations are "intended to cause death."