(Spotify later publicly released its internal “longstanding platform rules.”) “Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy,” the letter read. This group was not advocating for Rogan, who reportedly has a $100 million contract with Spotify, to be removed from the platform, or even that the episode featuring Malone should be removed - rather, it was asking Spotify to clarify its guidelines regarding medical misinformation, if it had any to begin with. During the episode, Malone promoted various Covid-19-related conspiracy theories, such as the debunked idea that the medical establishment’s espousal of vaccines was due to “mass formation psychosis.” Robert Malone, a virologist who has been suspended from Twitter for posting misinformation about Covid-19. 31 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the wildly popular podcast hosted by comedian Joe Rogan which featured Dr. Podcasts were certainly their go-to.Earlier this month, Rolling Stone reported that a group of 270 doctors, healthcare workers, educators, and scientists was campaigning for Spotify to publicly adopt a misinformation policy. They’re looking for other places where the revenue split isn’t that dramatic. “In the music side of things, paying out roughly 70 percent of all the revenue that comes in.
“I think it comes down to, just frankly, business,” said John Simson, the program director for the business and entertainment program at American University. The next year, Spotify spent nearly $200m to acquire the Ringer and its suite of popular podcasts, such as “Binge Mode,” “The Press Box” and its founder’s “The Bill Simmons Podcast.” And, of course, it reportedly spent more than $100m to acquire exclusive rights to a single show: the extremely popular, rabble-rousing “Joe Rogan Experience.” It also spent more than $100m on Anchor, a platform that lets users create and share their own podcasts. That year it purchased Gimlet Media, home of podcasts such as “Reply All,” “Homecoming” and “Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel,” for an estimated $230m.
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