I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.” “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” Mitchell wrote on her website on Friday.

Some other classic rockers, Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren, have taken Young’s side and asked for their catalogs to be taken off Spotify. Lies being sold for money.”Īfter Young threatened to remove his entire catalog of music from the streaming platform, Spotify eventually decided to side with Rogan and his show, and Young’s music was removed from Spotify last week. In a letter posted on his website, Young wrote: “Spotify has become the home of life-threatening COVID misinformation. The rock legend recently demanded Spotify cancel Joe Rogan’s highly popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, after guests made controversial statements on the show regarding COVID-19 misinformation. Fridman had written, “Props to Spotify for backing Joe Rogan. Musk, who is famously fascinated with robots and automation, had posted the tweet in response to Lex Fridman, host of an automation-focused podcast.

Musk appeared to equate Young’s issue with the spread of misinformation about vaccines with personal dislike toward Rogan. The meme shows an unsmiling picture of Young, accompanied by the words, “If you won’t censor the guy I don’t like, I won’t let you listen to ‘Keep on rocking in the free world,’” a reference to one of Young’s most famous tracks. Replying to a tweet congratulating Spotify on its decision to back Rogan’s embattled podcast, Musk posted a meme seemingly backing Rogan’s right to free speech and criticizing Young for attempting to censor him.

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