Just when you thought Neil Young’s ill-conceived boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan was fizzling out, Prince Harry and Meghan step in to keep it fizzling a little longer. The couple – not known to be fans of people expressing themselves freely – have been “expressing concerns” to Spotify behind the scenes, warning of the “serious harms” of false information. The Telegraph has the story.
Spotify, which signed an £18million deal to work with the couple’s Archewell media company last year, has come under fire over the alleged spread of COVID-19 misinformation by other podcasters on its streaming service.
Prince Harry and Meghan have been “expressing concerns” to Spotify behind the scenes, it has emerged, with the couple warning of the “serious harms” of false information.
The revelation comes as the row continues about the platform’s marquee podcast – the Joe Rogan Experience – which has faced criticism due to the host’s alleged airing of vaccine-sceptical views and debunked claims regarding the treatment of COVID-19.
Prince Harry and Meghan have waded into the row, with an Archewell spokesman stating: “Since the inception of Archewell, we have worked to address the real-time global misinformation crisis.
“Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the serious harms of rampant mis- and disinformation every day.
“Last April, our co-founders began expressing concerns to our partners at Spotify about the all-too-real consequences of COVID-19 misinformation on its platform.
“We have continued to express our concerns to Spotify to ensure changes to its platform are made to help address this public health crisis.
“We look to Spotify to meet this moment and are committed to continuing our work together as it does.”
The comments from Archewell come after musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell demanded their music be pulled from the platform unless Joe Rogan’s podcast was removed.
Spotify removed Young’s music from the platform and retained the Joe Rogan Experience, which signed an exclusive deal with Spotify worth £82million in 2020, and is now one of the world’s most-listened-to podcasts.
The podcast has faced criticism during the COVID-19 pandemic for allegedly providing a platform for fringe views, including an episode with vaccine scientist Dr Robert Malone, who made claims about the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Rogan himself has said on his show that the young and healthy do not “need” the vaccine. He later clarified that he was not anti-vaccine and stated: “I’m not a respected source of information.”
Last year he outlined his position on the vaccine, saying that he was “not an anti-vax person” and adding: “I believe they’re safe and encourage many people to take them.”
The problem with the call to ban ‘misinformation’, of course, is that the authorities have changed their messages repeatedly throughout the pandemic. Different authorities also say different things, with the U.S. health authorities claiming the Covid vaccines are safe for young children while the Swedish health authorities say otherwise. This means there is no sound definition of ‘misinformation’ that can be banned that guarantees only to forbid what is false. Instead, what the call amounts to is a ban on the airing of any viewpoint other than the currently officially approved one in a given country, right or wrong. But that is just Government censorship of dissent, and is clearly neither liberal, scientific, nor conducive to the discovery of what is true.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Nils Lofgren, Brené Brown and possibly Dave Grohl have joined the boycott. At this rate Spotify will run out of artists some time in, er, the year 4000.
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Back in the 1970s a tv company announced it was going to make an in-depth, heavily-researched programme on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and to do this advertised widely throughout the world foer anyone who had ever met and/or had dealings of any kind with the couple. Whoever replied, and there were reported to be approaching many thousands replying, were sent a questionnaire to be filled in. One question was “In the course of your meeting/dealing with the couple, either singly or together, did the couple pay for any meal or refreshment enjoyed at the time?
in all the thousands of replies, not one said the Windsor’s picked up the bill. I have no doubt that it is a similar case with Ginge and Minge.
Yes all these “celebrities who know F.A about medical matters. Is it because it gets them in the news or because they are getting paid.
I watched Jimmy Dore an American Comedian at 5am this morning. He had Dr Bhattachariya and Dr Kuldorff on. I bet that will annoy the same people although Jimmy has less followers he still gets a lot of views. He has had problems since getting the vaccine and is in a study group of people with who suffered adverse reactions. One of the medications he has been given is ivermectin.
This is a fantastic opportunity for Harry to show the world what the best education and all the money in the world can buy. OK Harry, please make an online presentation detailing exactly how these injections work, what the mechanisms of so called protection are, and why it is essential for perfecty healthy people with no theoretical risk from Convid – because in the under 70s the original super deadly strain (never isolated or proven to exist so Harry can enlighten us as to the rigorous irrefutable proof that this is all underpinned by legit science) had a survival rate of 99.97 percent so trying to improve upon that is barking mad for a start. So please, Harry, put your money where your mouth is, make a presentation outlining your case, and well critique it. We will ascertain if you are speaking sense and truth, or if you are just shilling for the forces of evil who are running this blatant scam.
Here is one John Ioannidis paper confirming the exceptionally low mortality rate of this super killer mega virus which shut the world down. This can be Harrys starting point for his presentation – why healthy folk should… Read more »
Another reason to ditch the monarchy.
Another reason to stop worshiping the Saxe Coburg Gotha family like many unfortunately still do. The idea of a god appointed family to rule over a nation has had its day – if the Royals weren’t senior Freemasons we would have moved on. It’s just the thought of Emperor Blair or similar that gives people pause to thought.
They are just preparing us for some type of international ‘misinformation’ law, so they can get away with a full on police state and genocide next time.
We need a trigger warning for any article referring to this pair of pariahs!
Time for a heated debate between Prince William and Dr. Robert Malone. I’d watch that – my money’s on…err…oh it’s difficult to predict who’d win.
Thick as mince former royal and 3rd rate actress give us their views on experimental gene therapies……. yawn.
There is a lot of misinformation [sic] about his!
A senior advisor at The Blackstone Group is an ex-CEO of Pfizer.
Blackstone owns half of Hipgnosis.
Hipgnosis owns Young’s music.
Young’s music is on Spotify.
Spotify allows free speech including anti-narrative opinions on, er, Pfizer’s jabs.
Me? I can’t see a connection at all.
The point is, this another warning that people with lives of privilege, money and power, celebrities or polticians or otherwise are going to keep on turning the screw on the rest of us.
Censoring us, controlling us, squashing our freedoms and rights and impoverishing us while enriching themselves to the max.
This, along with challenging the eco loonacy, is the biggest fight of our lives.
And that fight back needs to start now.
Happily even the vaxxed are seeing the reality. The highly vaxxed countries also have the most covid cases. No offence to Meghan and Harry, but I prefer to take my medical advice from a person who has attended medical school. People like Drs, Ioannidis, Battacharya, Malhotra, Kory, McCullough, Atlas, and thousands of other doctors witnessing the reality.
Is there a bandwagon anywhere that this pair won’t jump on?
So far, the answer is ‘No’.
They are just a gift that keeps on giving- they provide a reverse moral compass for us all- if they say it’s true, we know it’s not. They should market this as another one of their products.
Am I right in thinking there’s a touch of hypocrisy about Neil Young … Back in the 60s he was one of the first to complain about censorship , at the time of Vietnam, Kent State etc …
hH and M are merely jumping on a bandwagon, not surprising, no one is the slightest bit interested in them ….
Now those 2 narcissistic airheads have given us their truth Spotify must be sooooo scared 🤣🤣🤣
A viral infection that kills roughly 0.15% of those who contract it and still the madness persists.
WTF has happened to Homo Sapiens?
Please, everybody, get a grip.
I quit Facebook around 5 years ago when I got sick of justifying my existence on such a politically charged intrusion into my life. I’m now in the process of removing all my information off the Google platform for the same reason.
Like everything when you become Blackpilled (and I’m not talking about the laughable faux black-pill James Delingpole claims to have taken), it’s not an easy task ‘releasing’ yourself from the shackles that lock us into this false reality.
And I’m minded of this while watching the fake battle going on between Rogan and the entitled fruity commie celebrities, whose job it is to look like they’re fighting the good fight.
You might think Rogan is a good guy, and he probably is to some extent, but real opposition would have been strangled of support long before they got as many followers as Rogan.
A neighbour’s dog crapped on my front lawn.
Over to you, Mrs and Mr Markle.
Joe Rogan said his doctor, Pierre Kory, is part of a group that has used Ivermectin to quietly treat 200 Members of U.S. Congress for COVID19. Dr Simone Gold, from America’s Frontline Doctors, told that she has prescribed treatments for Congress. She still believes in her oath, but she is vocal saying she has been contacted by many in DC. Can you believe these demons? Healing for them are OK but not for us. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Niggardly naggers gotta nag, like a niggard.
BLACK TRASH
This open letter suggests to me that the “other side” are not backing down on their programme of vaxxination.
Despite the rebellion in Canada, I think the “other side” will have wargamed this, and will not give up.
Reads like a threat.
https://noorchashm.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-drs-3e5e1bffd404
An Open Letter To Drs. Peter McCollough, Robert Malone and Pierre Kory — On Your Public Disparagement of COVID-19 Vaccines And Marketing Of “Early Treatment” To Infected Americans.
In this open letter to Drs. McCollough, Malone and Kory on the public record, I point to a very serious, and likely dangerous, error being committed by their disparagement of COVID-19 vaccination and marketing of a specific and systematized “early treatment” algorithm ….. Certainly, I have very serious concerns about the legality of their professional scheme.
Drs. McCollough, Malone and Kory,
I am compelled to write you this public letter of critique and professional opinion as a physician-immunologist, a public health advocate and an American citizen — having carefully listened to your perspectives and watched your public displays in the press and on the internet for the past 2 years. Specifically, after observing you on January 22 and 23, 2022 at the press conference organized by Senator Ron Johnson—… Read more »
This seems to be a reputable report of genuine findings of nanotech in some of the vaxxes. Two responsible and intelligent people not afraid to risk being derided for their findings.
https://odysee.com/@spearhead4truth:e/Nanotech-discovery-280122:9
Nanotech found in Pfizer jab by New Zealand lab. Sue Grey Co-leader of Outdoors and Freedom Party and Dr Matt Shelton report findings to Parliament’s Health Select Committee.
http://www.orwell.city has been publishing similar work from Spain, since last year, as have German pathologists.
That’s weird, isn’t Sue Grey the one supposedly investigating partygate?
She’s a woman of many talents. I hope she’s put this in her Partygate report.
All this prominent people openly calling for censorship because they’re so convinced that wrongthink must be suppressed are a real disgrace.
James Hewitt’s son doesn’t have a single GCSE to his name. He is so stupid, and so dispensable that they sent him to Afghanistan. He then married a coercive controlling liar. I wasn’t planning on taking a vaccine that doesn’t work; after their intervention I am even less inclined.
Notice they have only expressed concerns. That costs zero dollars. Spotify’s contract with Rogan is reported to be mostly on Rogan’s terms. If Spotify breaks the contract and demands censorship rights, Rogan will own Spotify.
I am not surprised these totalitarians would make a moronic intervention on this subject.
Blimey these two take the biscuit. Who cares what they think. I used to admire royals but no more.
They’re not royal anymore.
They’re just saying “we’re still here”