Spotify: Streaming giant announces plans to clamp down on Covid misinformation

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[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They are going to cancel Fauci? That is good news.

[–]Tommy_Knocker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If by misinformation they mean anything coming from Fauci, I agree. Most likely though they are giving in to the pressure and are gonna clamp down, or remove, the interviews they allow on their platform.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is cool, it sounds like a well intentioned half measure compromise. They will add a warning label and ban saying "Covid-19 or other diseases are not real and encouraging people to deliberately get infected with coronavirus in order to build immunity". They can tell everyone, see, we did something about this.

Spotify would be really dumb to walk away from the Rogan train right now. Rogan is journalism at this point.

Disclaimer: Spotify are no saints, there are still 42 banned JRE episodes not on Spotify

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I read a great article earlier about misinformation not being the problem, but rather the trust deficit. More censorship will not build more trust.

[–]wtfppl-1st 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

... By placing a disclaimer.

Pretty much everyone, except the lunatics who want more authoritarianism, are okay with the disclaimer.