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Spotify takes action once morest misinformation regarding Corona
Several artists including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are looking to pull their music off Spotify. (Archive image) Photo: Fabian Sommer/dpa
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Because stars like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell want to see their music removed from Spotify, the streaming service is now speaking up. An initiative once morest misinformation is to be implemented.
The streaming service Spotify wants to add a note to all posts regarding Covid-19 in the future, which should lead users to scientifically sound information from reliable sources.
This new initiative once morest false information will be implemented worldwide in the coming days, said the company’s founder and boss, Daniel Ek, in a blog post on Sunday. Spotify is thus responding to its users, who have raised questions regarding the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable content on the platform in the past few days, it said.
Artists want to pull off music
Several artists, including Neil Young (76/”Heart of Gold”) and Joni Mitchell (78/”Big Yellow Taxi”), had previously announced that they would withdraw their music from Spotify. They are thus protesting once morest a Corona podcast that has been criticized by numerous scientists as trivializing.
Spotify wants to make all music and audio content accessible to its users, it said in a statement from the Swedish streaming giant. The company has a comprehensive content policy and has removed more than 20,000 Corona-related podcast episodes since the pandemic began.
