Harry and Meghan Markle against Spotify: “Either us or the No-vax podcast”

The principe Harry e Meghan Markle they gave an aut aut and Spotify: if the music platform will not stop giving space to whom spreads fake news against the anti-Covid vaccine, will be the Sussex a terminate the contract almost two million pounds signed in 2019. It all started with a podcast (The Joe Rogan Experience) of the controversial comedian Joe Rogan, that on Spotify he talks about a field that is not his, namely science and medicine. Of this, already accused by scientists and the medical community of spreading disinformation on Covid and vaccines, in recent days we have already talked about why against him took the field a sacred monster of music like Neil Young.

The singer-songwriter, after publicly complaining that the streaming platform promotes “lies for money“, It was clear: o Rogan o me. Spotify retorted with a smoky statement claiming the “freedom” of content creators and Young went from words to deeds, asking the removal of your music catalog. After him he followed the same path Joni Mitchell, who made his passages disappear by explaining: “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical community.”

Now to take sides against the giant of music streaming there are also the Sussex who have just released a statement in which they express “worry“For the controversial interventions of Joe Rogan:”Hundreds of millions of people, every day, they can be damaged from the bad information», Write Harry and Meghan, adding:« Last April we started expressing concern to our Spotify partners about the consequences of the disinformation on Covid on the platform “. The prince and his wife, just like Neil Young, issued a warning in their note: “We are counting on the fact that Spotify will bring changes. If it does, we will continue to work together ». Translated: either you change or the collaboration is canceled.

The pilot episode of the Sussex podcast, in which we had also heard the voice of little Archie, was broadcast in December 2020. If the platform does not stop spreading fake news on Covid, of the Harry and Meghan project, it seems , we will know nothing more.

Source: Vanity Fair

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