Over three-plus hours, listeners heard a lot of talk about dark conspiracies between government, media and pharmaceutical companies, anecdotes promoting unproven COVID remedies and wildly incorrect information about how a state in India "crushed" COVID. He has promoted the idea that people who get vaccinated are victims of “mass psychosis.”
Last week, I listened to quite a bit of Rogan’s interview with Robert Malone, a molecular virologist and vaccine contrarian who has outraged the scientific community with his conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID treatments. It is true, as Rogan pointed out in his video, that statements that might once have gotten someone kicked off social media - say, that COVID-19 leaked from a lab, or that a vaccinated person can still contract the disease - are now tolerated.īut pretending to simply ask questions - when he is in fact allowing his guests to undermine the public trust in science - is disingenuous. And Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who also have a Spotify deal, issued a statement expressing their concern about "COVID-19 misinformation." Brené Brown, who signed an exclusive deal with Spotify in 2020, has stopped posting new content. Writer-podcasters Roxane Gay and Mary Trump have left the platform. Young was soon followed by Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and India Arie. Young made the move to protest Rogan’s embrace of guests who mislead listeners about the pandemic and vaccines.
Rogan has an estimated 11 million listeners per episode and a licensing agreement reportedly worth $100 million with Spotify, which was put on the defensive last month after Neil Young yanked his music off the streaming service. Who could have guessed a lack of preparation could pay off so well?
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