Opinion: Spotify knows Joe Rogan's podcast is hurtful, but gosh, there's money to be made


After his Dec 20 interview with vaccine sceptic Robert Malone, a group of scientists sent a letter of protest; not much later, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell yanked their music from the platform. —Reuters

Spotify just announced its newest podcast, Sorry, Not Sorry, in which billionaire CEOs discuss the most effective ways to seem to apologise for profiting from content that is offensive in historically oppressive ways without actually doing anything about it.

Kicking things off is Spotify's own Daniel Ek in conversation with Netflix's Ted Sarandos.

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