(Bloomberg) -- Spotify Technology SA outlined steps it will take to halt the spread of misleading information about Covid-19 on its audio-streaming service in an attempt to quell a growing controversy over its support for the podcast host Joe Rogan.

Spotify published internal rules Sunday governing what content is and isn’t allowed on its service, and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek said in a blog post that the company will add an advisory to any podcast episode that addresses the coronavirus. That advisory will direct listeners to a hub offering more information about the pandemic.

Spotify created rules governing acceptable content on its service years ago and created a hub with Covid-19 information early in the pandemic. While those policies have been accessible for employees, the company didn’t make them public until Sunday after a series of scandals jeopardized its business.

Folk singers Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their music from Spotify last week in protest of Rogan, a popular podcaster who has hosted several outspoken skeptics of the Covid-19 vaccines. Both Young and Mitchell suffered from polio as children, and their rebuke of Spotify followed a letter from more than 200 medical professionals criticizing the company as well.

“We have had rules in place for many years but admittedly, we haven’t been transparent around the policies that guide our content more broadly,” Ek wrote in the blog post. “This, in turn, led to questions around their application to serious issues including Covid-19.”

It remains to be seen whether the action will be enough to quell the maelstrom. The rules outlaw dangerous, deceptive, sensitive and illegal content, including anything that advocates or glorifies serious physical harm, deceptive content, interferes with an election or infringes on a copyright. Spotify’s post doesn’t mention Rogan by name, nor does it specify any podcasts it has already taken down. None of Rogan’s episodes violate Spotify’s policies, stocka company spokesperson said.

Rogan presented a public relations conundrum for Spotify ever since the company paid more than $100 million for the exclusive rights to his show. He offers a hospitable environment for guests with controversial points of view about the pandemic, politics and just about every other topic.

The criticism and controversy has thus far been worth it to the company’s leadership: Spotify’s stock price jumped the day they announced the deal, and Rogan hosts the single most popular podcast on its service. His arrival was a bright spot for the company, whose stock has slid 48% in the past 12 months, closing at $172.98 on Jan. 28 with a stock-market value of $33 billion.

Even so, criticism from famous musicians hurts Spotify more than any angry social-media comments. The company built its business as the most popular paid music-streaming service, and music is still the most popular audio genre on Spotify. While neither Mitchell nor Young matters to Spotify’s business all that much, they are two of the most respected musicians alive and their voices have the potential to inspire others to speak out.

With these rules, Spotify is hoping to placate the mounting insurrection among a vocal minority of users and musicians without alienating its most popular podcaster.

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they are pro making money. they have censored thousands of podcasts.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5020044&forum_id=2#43875199)

(It won’t)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5020044&forum_id=2#43875215)

Everything is an episode of West Wing to these "people"

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5020044&forum_id=2#43875810)

Libs solution to this is requiring this conversation to be preceded by a state-approved COVID message.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5020044&forum_id=2#43875999)

I want a Covid warning with my Limp Bizkit record so I can feel transgressive.

Spotify should intentionally make the warning sound like what you are about to hear is very dangerous and only the cool kids are in on it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5020044&forum_id=2#43878047)

Rogan has been smart to stay vaguely centrist and distancing himself from either extreme , he’s positioned perfectly to retain as much credibility as possible to the polluted minds of the goyim, who need blue checks and familiar faces to make them feel comfortable going off the reservation

It’s just funny that gc holds off on rugging his show with some amorphous deplatforming attempt, do they really think the goyim will die on the hill of a bald manlet druggie gateway redpiller? After all the lockdown crap you’d think they’d realise goyim are toothless slaves and the truth is a moving target of ‘whatever keeps my gc feed trough filled and my fat ass comfy’

They should just load the joe rogan is a virulent racist sex abuser Russian shill simulation already and end the charade that this stoner show will ever be more than a coping mechanism in gc’s playpen

Actually embarrassed that ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ is a landmark /flashpoint for debate on a societal level like the fact that JRE ‘is it’ just says everything about the lack of real discourse in mainstream media, but also the general vacuity of most adults that they need this stoner show to back them up and make them feel justified in exercising common sense or critical thinking , JRE fanboys , even if they’re on the ‘right side’ Are just as pathetic as MSNBC goyim,no one has the balls to stand on their own feet

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5020044&forum_id=2#43878134)

They already tried deleting shit, now they’re putting asterisks and twitter esque (!) disclaimers

They took the president off Twitter , they wil come for rogan , they just need to manufacture consent ‘phase’ it in and he’ll be forgotten in a few months

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5020044&forum_id=2#43878221)