Week 1: Spotify, Joe Rogan, and Social Responsibility
In reading about socially conscious businesses this week, it seemed appropriate that Spotify and accusations of negligence in their moderation of content, or lack thereof, would crop up. It strikes me as interesting that a company that spends so much time personalizing its service and trying to create that deep, long-lasting connection with its customer base would not publicly take responsibility for their largest content creator. Joe Rogan is notorious for both the amount of misinformation he spreads and the reach that his misinformation has, and in the NYT article linked, Neil Young notes that "Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform." Spotify seems to be trying to have their cake and eat it to, their CEO stating that they are not looking to moderate what their creators say whilst their statement earlier in the article stated they had removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19. It's not a good look for the com...