But as other artists begin to flank Young’s position on the streamer’s irresponsible misinformation protocol, figuring out precisely which musicians are pulling their catalogs from the platform has uncovered a troubling and ironic cycle of unverified claims. The fallout from Spotify’s week of reckoning has reportedly cost the company billions in market value. Robert Malone, mouth-of-the-modern-men’s-rights-movement, Jordan Peterson, and COVID-conspiracy-specialist Peter McCullough. And in the days following, thousands of users staged a boycott of Spotify, scrapping their premium accounts in protest of the company’s decision to roll with Rogan, who’s recent guests include vaccine-developer-turned-skeptic, Dr. The streamer very predictably chose to back its nine-figure investment in the podcasting space over Young’s music and swiftly began removing the folk-rock legend’s songs from their servers. Last week, Neil Young commenced the war on Spotify and Joe Rogan’s misinformation machine by forcing the company to choose between hosting his catalog and providing a mostly unmoderated platform for the podcasting star to explore controversial and outright dangerous falsehoods regarding COVID-19 and the global effort to vaccinate the public against a deadly virus.

As artists begin pulling their music from Spotify in protest of their support of Joe Rogan’s podcast, figuring out precisely whose catalog has been removed from the platform has uncovered a troubling and ironic cycle of unverified claims Photo Illustration by Cindy Ord via Getty Images.

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