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Spotify on Friday eliminated 70 Joe Rogan Expertise episodes from 2020 and former years. In the meantime, Rogan issued an apology after video confirmed him saying the n-word on varied podcast episodes.
The brand new episode removals weren’t associated to the COVID misinformation that led Neil Younger, Joni Mitchell, and others to ask for his or her music to be pulled from Spotify, which triggered a backlash from indignant followers. However it was the second large spherical of Rogan episode removals since Spotify signed the podcast host.
“Beforehand, Spotify had pruned 43 ‘JRE’ episodes from the catalog after the corporate added Rogan’s present in September 2020 beneath a $100 million unique distribution pact. These included segments with right-wing figures reminiscent of Infowars’ Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes and Milo Yiannopoulos and in addition episodes with comedians,” in accordance with Selection.
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