Rogan, Joe
Spotify’s Joe Rogan Deal Is Said to Be Worth Over $200 Million
Signs of a Cultural Divide Management of the crisis in the United States may have been further complicated because Spotify’s headquarters is nearly 4,000 miles away, in Sweden, where Mr. Ek, a publicity-shy executive who grew up in a suburb of Stockholm, and many of the company’s engineers and longest-tenured employees are based. Free expression […]
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How Did Squarespace Know Podcasts Would Get This Big?
In 2009, Anthony Casalena was listening to a lot of podcasts, especially one called “This Week in Tech,” a round table where tech reporters gathered to talk about things like Farmville, Foursquare and the iFart app. Though the website building business he started in his dorm room six years before had yet to make a […]
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Fact-Checking Joe Rogan’s Interview With Robert Malone That Caused an Uproar
Spotify has been rocked in recent weeks by the controversy engulfing its most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan. Several prominent musicians and podcasters have left the streaming service to protest what they described as Mr. Rogan’s history of promoting misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines. There have been calls for boycotts, and Mr. Rogan issued an […]
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Joe Rogan Apologizes for ‘Shameful’ Past Use of Racial Slur
As pressure has intensified on Spotify and its star podcaster Joe Rogan, listeners reported that the company had quietly removed dozens of episodes of his show, while Rogan apologized early Saturday for his use of a racial slur in past episodes. In an Instagram video, Rogan — whose talk show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” is […]
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Spotify’s Joe Rogan Problem Isn’t Going Away
Still, the backlash intensifies. Civil rights groups organize a boycott. Advertisers pull their campaigns. A hashtag trends. The platform’s employees threaten to walk out. Days later, the chief executive is forced to choose between barring a popular creator — and face the fury of his fans — or being seen as a hypocrite and an […]
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Spotify Responds to Complaints About Covid Misinformation
The chief executive of Spotify responded on Sunday to growing complaints from musicians and listeners over the role of Joe Rogan, the streaming service’s star podcaster, in spreading what has been widely criticized as misinformation about the coronavirus. Last week, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell — two musical icons whose cultural influence is far greater […]
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Spotify Removes Neil Young’s Music After Complaints About Joe Rogan
He added: “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.” That letter was removed from Young’s website soon after it was posted, though it drew wide news media attention. The Coronavirus Pandemic: Key Things to Know Card 1 of 4 Vaccine mandate. The deadline has arrived for many unvaccinated health care workers in the U.S. to […]
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