How they lie!-----Rogan has also endorsed using ivermectin

 

 

Tonight: My default state of ignoring Joe Rogan is upended by legit news we have to cover. I apologize in advance. Let's get into it.

By Allison Morrow

🎙️ SPOTIFY SCANDAL

 

Spotify made an estimated $100 million bet on a Covid-skeptic who dabbles in conspiracy theories when it secured exclusive rights to “The Joe Rogan Experience” in 2020. Now the streaming company is finding out just how much of a liability its star podcaster can be. 

 

In case you missed it: Late last week, Neil Young and other artists began pulling their music from Spotify, protesting the streaming platform’s most popular host, Joe Rogan. The artists’ backlash came in response to a letter from 270 medical experts who wrote that Spotify is “allowing the propagation of false and societally harmful assertions” from Rogan and his guests. 

 

If you’re not familiar with Rogan, here’s a brief look at what the medical community is angry about:

• Rogan recently hosted Robert Malone, a doctor who was suspended from Twitter for spreading Covid misinformation. Malone used the show to promote several baseless claims, the medical experts said, including several misleading or false statements about vaccines and an unfounded theory known as "mass formation psychosis,” which suggests that much of the population has been hypnotized to follow Covid protocols. 
• Rogan has also endorsed using ivermectin, a de-worming medicine used in livestock, despite repeated warnings from US health officials that ivermectin is not only an unproven defense but a potentially harmful one. (When unvaccinated Aaron Rodgers contracted Covid, he said he consulted with his pal Joe Rogan on using the drug.) 
• The host also said he believes — and again, this is demonstrably false — that younger people who exercise and eat healthy don’t need to get vaccinated and have little to worry about if they become infected with Covid. 
• His guests' commentaries are so full of nonsense they’re hardly worth debunking (though if you’re interested, that debunking exists courtesy of CNN, the Associated Press, CNBC, NPR, and many others...Read all.