People say wild things on podcasts and just get away with it in a way that you never would on Twitter. I’ve been waiting for this for years, and I’ve never really understood how there’ve been this massive blind spot on podcasts that gets a free pass.
Lizzie O’Leary: Are you surprised that people care so much about Joe Rogan and Spotify?Įvelyn Douek: I am in one sense. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. On Friday’s episode of What Next: TBD, I spoke with Evelyn Douek, a lecturer at Harvard Law School who studies online speech, about the questions around content moderation that the Joe Rogan Spotify controversy raises. Despite the letter, the issue of what Spotify should do regarding content moderation and continuing to act as a publisher of podcasts remains murky. In response to the controversy, Spotify’s CEO Daniel EK admitted in a letter on the company’s website that the company’s content moderation policies had not been “transparent” and outlined some steps the company was taking regarding COVID content. Spotify staff is reportedly upset about Rogan’s shows, and prominent podcasters like Roxane Gay have pulled their work as well. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell took their work off the streaming platform in protest. Now, Spotify is in an uncomfortable spotlight over Rogan’s history of frequently broadcasting COVID misinformation, under the guise of “just asking questions.”Įvery day there seems to be a new development. In 2020, Spotify paid $100 million to become the exclusive home of Joe Rogan’s blockbuster podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech.
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