Other artists have also done this, including India Arie and Graham Nash the writer Roxane Gay removed her podcast from Spotify. And then, most recently, artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell said that they were going to pull their music from the streaming service unless Spotify broke up with Joe Rogan. So in response, a group of 270 health care workers wrote an open letter to Spotify condemning the Joe Rogan show. Now Rogan, to put it one way, he's had some questionable guests on his show in the past, but it hit a kind of boiling point over the past couple of months when he interviewed guests who promoted misinformation about Covid vaccines, and people reacted. And then last year it paid a reported $100 million for exclusive access to the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. So to quickly recap, Spotify, which is primarily all about streaming music, has been pushing deeper into podcasting in recent years. ![]() LG: If you listen to any podcast other than this one, you've probably heard about the recent controversy involving Spotify and the podcaster Joe Rogan. Kate, it's great to have you back on the show. ![]() LG: We're also joined this week by WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs, who is Zooming in from Chicago.
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