Prince Harry and Meghan Markle also expressed their concerns to Spotify for allowing “COVID misinformation” to be spread on its platform, as per a report.

It was not just Young and hundreds of scientists who have expressed their concern regarding Rogan’s misinformation-spreading podcast. During the episode, Rogan interviewed medical doctor Robert Malone, who said that Americans were “hypnotised” into wearing masks and getting vaccines, and that the country suffered from “mass formation psychosis.” The episode aired on December 31. Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, has been embroiled in controversy for quite some time and most of the episodes often fuel conspiracy theories like how climate change is a hoax.Įarlier this month, 270 scientists wrote an open letter to Spotify asking it to address COVID misinformation after the release of an anti-vax episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.

According to a report by Variety, the Swedish audio streaming company’s market capitalisation fell about $2.1 billion a span of three days last week after folk rocker Neil Young removed his songs from Spotify to register his protest against Rogan’s podcast. It seems American podcaster Joe Rogan’s controversial episode on COVID-19 misinformation has caused audio streaming platform Spotify a loss of $2 billion (approx Rs 200 crore) in market value.

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