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Neil Young threatens to pull music from Spotify over Joe Rogan vaccine ‘disinformation’

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Legendary Canadian rocker Neil Young penned an open letter on Monday, requesting that his music be removed from Spotify as long as host Joe Rogan has his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, on the streaming service.

Young, 76, posted the letter (since deleted) to his personal site — addressed to Warner Bros. corporate leadership and his management team at LookoutManagement — saying that he doesn’t want to feature his music on the platform alongside Rogan’s podcast, which, according to the musician, spreads “disinformation” about COVID-19 and vaccines. “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,” he wrote, according to multiple entertainment news outlets. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.” “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all of my music off their platform,” it continued. “They can have Rogan or Young.

Not both.” Read more: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas welcome baby born via surrogate Rogan, 54, signed a $100-million deal with Spotify in mid-2020, and his podcast is currently the most-listened-to on the platform. (Spotify has exclusive distribution rights, but does not own his podcast outright.) Young is not the first to call out Spotify for allegedly spreading misinformation through Rogan’s podcast; a group of 270 scientists and medical professionals previously shared an open letter with the platform on New Year’s Eve.

The letter specifically calls out an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring guest Dr. Robert Malone, but zeroes in on the podcast as a whole as potentially damaging and misleading, especially for

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