Spotify COVID-19 Misinformation Row: Roxane Gay Removes Her Podcast

Roxane Gay, the host of ‘The Roxane Gay Agenda’ podcast, has eliminated her present from Spotify amid a rising variety of superstar departures from the audio streaming platform lately.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the podcast — which premiered in late January — shouldn’t be out there on Spotify however can nonetheless be streamed on Apple Podcasts or the Luminary app.

“It won’t move any sort of needle but I removed my podcast from Spotify,” the ‘Bad Feminist’ writer tweeted.

She added, “That’s all there really is to say about that. Onward.”

Roxane’s departure comes after India Arie, a musician and podcaster stated she can be pulling her podcast ‘SongVersation’ from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s feedback on his podcast that it will be “weird” to name Black folks “black” except they have been “100 percent African, from the darkest place, where they’re not wearing any clothes all day.”

As for different podcasters, Brene Brown, who has two unique podcasts with Spotify, introduced final week that she can be pausing the discharge of any future episodes of ‘Unlocking Us’ and ‘Dare to Lead’.

In a message posted on her private web site, Brown elaborated on her resolution and known as on Spotify to “have a transparent misinformation policy (made available to the public) that balances addressing the complex misinformation issues we face today while respecting free speech” that was utilized throughout the platform.

Recently, many musicians have additionally had their songs faraway from Spotify in protest of Rogan’s content material. Graham Nash, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell are a few of these celebrities.