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Representatives for Young and Rogan did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News’ request for comment. N eil Young this week issued Spotify with a blunt ultimatum: it’s me or Joe Rogan. He has discouraged vaccination in young people and children, incorrectly claimed that mRNA vaccines are 'gene therapy,' promoted off-label use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 (contrary to FDA warnings), and spread a number of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories,” the letter states. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, podcaster Bren Brown and more are standing up to Spotify for allowing Joe Rogan to keep airing coronavirus misinformation. “Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Joe Rogan has repeatedly spread misleading and false claims on his podcast, provoking distrust in science and medicine. Earlier this month, 270 doctors and medical professionals also published an open letter to Spotify calling for the company to “implement a misinformation policy.” Young earlier this week warned Spotify that if it didnt drop Rogans podcasts, the singer. Rogan has been under fire for spreading inaccurate information about COVID and vaccines to his millions of listeners. A hot potato: In the battle between Neil Young and Joe Rogan, it seems the latter has come out on top. In 2020, Rogan signed a $100 million licensing deal with Spotify, making it the exclusive owner of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.

“SPOTIFY has become the home of life threatening COVID misinformation. Regardless of where you stand on the politics, 5. “I realized I could not continue to support SPOTIFY’S life threatening misinformation to the music loving public,” Young wrote. For anyone who might be concerned about the Spotify/Neil Young/Joe Rogan thing, Tidal gives veterans 40 off. In another statement published on his website Wednesday, Young said he hopes that other musical artists and record companies “will move off the SPOTIFY platform and stop supporting SPOTIFY’S deadly misinformation about COVID.” “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” Young wrote. Young's letter was originally published on his website on Monday, but has since been removed. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.” “We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. 'Neil Young is 76 years old and hasnt been relevant in 40 years, but somehow he thinks he can demand. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators,” a spokesperson for Spotify told BuzzFeed News in a statement. Rogans victory over Young is being celebrated by many of his conservative supporters today.

“We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music catalog at his request after he published an open letter demanding that the streaming giant address the vaccine misinformation being spread on Joe Rogan’s podcast.