Prince Harry and Meghan “Express Concerns” to Spotify Over Joe Rogan Vaccine “Misinformation”
Just when you thought Neil Young’s ill-conceived boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan was fizzling out, Prince Harry and Meghan step in to keep it fizzling a little longer. The couple – not known to be fans of people expressing themselves freely – have been “expressing concerns” to Spotify behind the scenes, warning of the “serious harms” of false information. The Telegraph has the story.
Spotify, which signed an £18million deal to work with the couple’s Archewell media company last year, has come under fire over the alleged spread of COVID-19 misinformation by other podcasters on its streaming service.
Prince Harry and Meghan have been “expressing concerns” to Spotify behind the scenes, it has emerged, with the couple warning of the “serious harms” of false information.
The revelation comes as the row continues about the platform’s marquee podcast – the Joe Rogan Experience – which has faced criticism due to the host’s alleged airing of vaccine-sceptical views and debunked claims regarding the treatment of COVID-19.
Prince Harry and Meghan have waded into the row, with an Archewell spokesman stating: “Since the inception of Archewell, we have worked to address the real-time global misinformation crisis.
“Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the serious harms of rampant mis- and disinformation every day.
“Last April, our co-founders began expressing concerns to our partners at Spotify about the all-too-real consequences of COVID-19 misinformation on its platform.
“We have continued to express our concerns to Spotify to ensure changes to its platform are made to help address this public health crisis.
“We look to Spotify to meet this moment and are committed to continuing our work together as it does.”
The comments from Archewell come after musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell demanded their music be pulled from the platform unless Joe Rogan’s podcast was removed.
Spotify removed Young’s music from the platform and retained the Joe Rogan Experience, which signed an exclusive deal with Spotify worth £82million in 2020, and is now one of the world’s most-listened-to podcasts.
The podcast has faced criticism during the COVID-19 pandemic for allegedly providing a platform for fringe views, including an episode with vaccine scientist Dr Robert Malone, who made claims about the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Rogan himself has said on his show that the young and healthy do not “need” the vaccine. He later clarified that he was not anti-vaccine and stated: “I’m not a respected source of information.”
Last year he outlined his position on the vaccine, saying that he was “not an anti-vax person” and adding: “I believe they’re safe and encourage many people to take them.”
The problem with the call to ban ‘misinformation’, of course, is that the authorities have changed their messages repeatedly throughout the pandemic. Different authorities also say different things, with the U.S. health authorities claiming the Covid vaccines are safe for young children while the Swedish health authorities say otherwise. This means there is no sound definition of ‘misinformation’ that can be banned that guarantees only to forbid what is false. Instead, what the call amounts to is a ban on the airing of any viewpoint other than the currently officially approved one in a given country, right or wrong. But that is just Government censorship of dissent, and is clearly neither liberal, scientific, nor conducive to the discovery of what is true.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Nils Lofgren, Brené Brown and possibly Dave Grohl have joined the boycott. At this rate Spotify will run out of artists some time in, er, the year 4000.
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Who the flipping hell do these two think they are? And even if they were ‘anyone’, who the flipping hell cares what they think?
These two walked away from responsiblities and obligations (as if dressing up nicely and shaking a few hands now and then is anything remotely resembling a responsibility) so they can just wind their necks right in.
I’ll tell you who has to deal with responsibilities, Ginge and Whinge; the poor paramedics who tried their damndest and failed with 22-year-old Paul Parish at yesterday’s Fulham game.
Just STFU.
I think you may be missing the bigger picture.
It’s clear that Rogan has enemies, as does anyone public and with certain power. Neil Young’s random shot at Rogan has been picked up by them and they’re testing to see how much damage they can do to him.
No doubt they’ve gone to look for some poor, publicity craving dopes to do a bit of sniping and they’ve landed on these two idiots.
All this shows is how utterly insignificant and irrelevant they are. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell followed by Harry & Meghan. That’s who they are barely a step up from. The next level of “celeb” to try to turn the heat up on Rogan.
But it is interesting to see how much momentum this will get. I have no doubt that they would love to take down an independent voice like Joe Rogan’s. That would definitely push the plebs back into their place even more. After all, that’s what all this is really about. Just another sub-plot of in the general effort to stamp down on the pesky plebs.
Lol, I don’t think there’s any point to miss where these two are concerned. They are just a couple of rent-a-gob whining children, available to the highest bidder. I suppose it might be interesting to find out which of their ‘co-founders’ might have paid them to go out and big up the jabs, because this is what their ‘statement’ amounts to, but I lost the will to live reading the Wiki page for ‘Archewell’. What a complete load of old flannel.
They are nobodies with big mouths, just monestising links they no longer have to a family and a country they turned their backs on.
It was once said of an Australian politician’s ex wife that she was a publicity chaser who would show up at the opening of an envelope. This pair put her in the shade.
Absolutely, I am sick to the backteeth of any coverage of Ginger and Whinger .I did not care one iota for what they thought or said when here and I care 1000 times less now they are not.
Can we add any coverage of them to the profanities list please Toby
Ginger and Whinger. Perfect!
Who the flipping hell do these two think they are?
It’s not who they ‘think they are’ – it’s who they actually are : ‘influencer’ trivia who have tremendous pull on the lame brains who read Hello and the trash press, hypnotised by the glitter of royalty in this Ruritania.
They are more bottomfeeders than people with influence. If they had influence they’d exert it rather than going with the flow and basically saying “What Albert Bourla says! Us too!”
As far as I’m concerned, that’s Prince Pantsdown and the lady capable of making really convincing arguments with her mouth :->. Hardly people whose opinions on anything would matter. Moreover, he doesn’t really have any, and she just repeats whatever her comwokiots consider commes ils faut.
NB: Insofar I have any political opinions, I consider myself a monarchist. But that doesn’t mean I believe that each wayward scion of some royal family must belong to a superior species of man.
Was he only 22 😢
Nice to encounter people of real depth, intelligence and integrity
Any opportunity for a bit of exposure………………
Good point. They’ve got a publicity budget, they’ve got staff who keep track of their profile, and if they’ve been off the front pages for a while…
Away and boil ya heeeds ya fekin tubes!
Sage advice that I fear will not be heeded.
Clearly 77th. A true Glaswegian would spell it “heids”.
^ Joke 🙂
Nah. Bollox is OK, Ya ken.
Just his English enunciation, dontcha ken.
Prince Harry is going to turn me into a republican.
Uncle Andy hasn’t already?!
In my case, no, but the Queen’s climate change outburst did, in a nanosecond.
No for me it was when she said everyone had to be jabbed.
Yup that was a disappointment.
Yes.
What the f. would a voice for the establishment be expected to do?
She could just avoid commenting! The clotshot is now very much a political issue as the queen is generally fairly adept at avoiding controversial political topics.
Sorry CR – you beat me to it.
Say nothing at all if she was at all concerned that what she might be saying was “political” and controversial – this from a woman who has spent the bulk of her adult life trying to make sure that the monarchy stays out of politics
Her late husbands influence, me thinks.
me too that was it.
The whole family is toxic.
and prince charles too. how could he be for the’jab’ he ‘s against GMOS
The wankers did it to me years ago as the late great MrBourdain said those gates would look better with their heads on,standing outside buck palace.
The scientific genius that are Meghan the equivalent of a Coronation street actress and a Prince who I believe achieved 1 Alevel in Art obviously can debate with Peter McCullough and Robert Malone with regards to the vaccines and their effect on the body. Its time these free loaders backed off, the investigation into the corruption surrounding the Big Pharma/CDC/Fauci and Big tech tie up is gaining momentum, if these two clearly very bright creatures don’t want to find themselves in the same situation as Uncle Andrew perhaps they should keep out.
Meanwhile Joe Rogan must be fairly sure he is hovering very close to the target with all these attempts to take him down.
If anyone deserves a medal, for shining a light on Big Pharma and the pandemic fraud and actually getting to the masses in a way MSM never will it is Rogan
He cheated in his art a level the teacher did his crayon picture.
This is a culture war now. I know whose side I’m on, and it’s not this pair of thick twats!
Hell’s teeth they are awful. Spotify should tell them to just do one. And stop paying them.
Yep, science is now politicised. Kamala says earth is a globe I start thinking it might be flat as a pancake.
Legendary scientists H & M have expressed concerns. Lots of people have on both sides of the argument. Next.
And in other news “35 year old man beats man 10 years his junior in tennis match lasting over 5 and a half hours” in what was billed as the Australian Open final. Same 35 year old man criticised the world’s best player, who was not permitted to play in the tournament, on solely political grounds, for seeking entry to the tournament while not being vaccinated and has in the past made statements to the effect that everyone has to be vaccinated so that we can get out of the pandemic as it is the only way out. I very much doubt that someone who had the clot shot – 3 times, if that is the requirement to be “fully vaccinated” – would have been jabbed with the same clot shot he exhorts everyone else to submit to and still be capable of pulling off the feat described in the opening sentence of this post. I will find it very hard to accept that he is currently the best player of all time, with 21 grand slams to his name, and not place an asterisk beside his 2022 Australian Open [it wasn’t REALLY ‘Open’ was it?], in the absence of… Read more »
Yep, that asterix is indelible.
I wish these two leeches would P O and mind their own business. Just like our resident trolls on here the best way of dealing with these two horrors is to ignore them; vain, thick and useless.
What the hell would these two know about health matters, particularly vaccines? A lot less than Robert Malone that’s for sure. A sign of weakness when the mainstream narrative has to wheel out has-been ‘slebs’. Another two added to my ‘eff you’ list this last week along with Neil Young. Getting rather long. .Gervais, Lenny Henry, Michael Caine, Elton John, Jim Broadbent….Nearly a hundred now, none of whom know half as much as I do (having researched now for two years) about the toxic product they’re pushing. Drug dealers the lot of ’em.
We need a central compilation for this list. We could call it the “Arya Stark” list.
Lol yes!
Sadly a few of them used to be friends of mine.
I didn’t know Gervais was batting for the jab pushers. I’m shocked. I used to like him for his stance on animal welfare etc. I’m very disappointed in him.
Me too. But there he was enthusing vociferously about getting the jab. To be fair, he wasn’t like that awful Jimmy Carr slagging off ani-Covid jabbers but in his enthusiasm he was very much pushing it.
Shocked? I ain’t. I went to school with that tw*t, not a nice person.
His ‘acting’ isn’t. He’s just playing himself.
There was always a streak of nasty hiding beneath the comedy-gold exterior of Gervais. Not to mention the whiff of hypocrisy. Slags off other celebs for their beliefs, then doesn’t hesitate to inflict his high-school level atheism on us. But yeah, at the end of day, way too chuffed with himself and his cleverness. So comes out as pro-vaxx, what a surprise. Another know-nothing who needs to stay in his lane making amusing television shows and leave the heavy-lifting of epidemiology and medical science to people who actually know something.
These two make me sick to the stomach. I really hope Spotify tell them to do one. Ginger Canute and his talentless harlot.
They are ignorant of just about anything in this world. Whether they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, or have exploited the grotesque film and TV industry is irrelevant; they are not medically qualified to express an opinion on any medical treatment, tested to death or not.
They have no experience of the day to day privations of people in this country or the US, spouting gibberish as they do from their multi million dollar mansion in Los Angeles. Just go away, look after your children, stop the hypocrisy over flying, shut up and stop seeking publicity for yourselves.
Does this come as any surprise? They’re all part of the globalist elite, trying to protect the narrative.
And Harry openly symbolises his Freemasonry
Not sure about that one. But what do you make of the Merkel quadrilateral which was definitely deliberate?
Can’t believe I used to fancy her when she was on Suits.
I doubt if this couple have even listened to / watched the offending podcast.
Or would understand it if they did.
I struggle to picture a person, who listens to music on Spotify, now sitting up and paying attention with this intervention.
I may as well write a letter in absolute support of Spotify. That’s how much people actually care I would wager.
The next Nobel Peace Prize should go to this dynamic duo, Klaus Schwab or Bill Gates.
I can’t make up my mind which. They’ve all done so much to the world a better place (for them).
They could easily convince us if they told us what was the misinformation they spoke of ?
Have these two actually listened to the programmes they are so offended about? I think not.
They may have listened. But I don’t think it would have been comprehended. There were multiple syllabic words in there.
Am loving Rogan displaying these high level ninja move – by not even commenting.
This gives NutMeg a way out of their Spotify contract. Wasn’t it $18m they received to podcast?
Spotify should just be like “Oh that’s interesting. Would you like us to annul your contract?”
(how many podcasts have they delivered? I think it was 1. Which I haven’t listened to)
If anything or anybody so richly deserved a good torrent of “profanity and abuse”, it’s this Dreadful Duo. However, mindful of the enjoinder in place here, I shall be a good chap and keep my own counsel.
Yep: but don’t worry – we all know how to read between the lines!
So sick of these ‘elites’ sticking their noses in everything. They should mind their own business.
I’d say this qualifies as a strong vindication of everything Rogan and his ‘misinforming’ guests like Malone ever said.
This is what a proper liberal and journalist just wrote about misinformation, censorship and unenlightened and unconstitutionally behaving people like those 2.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/greenwald-pressure-campaign-remove-joe-rogan-spotify-reveals-liberal-religion-censorship
Also, no wonder that they are Boomer kids and Millennials, certainly intellectually.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/29/the-road-to-vengeance/
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/27/the-needle-and-the-damage-done/
Harry is such a lazy and revolting little cnt.
He was funny once, even wore the family uniform.
I understand that one of the reasons the Queen hasn’t stood down for Charles is that there are a number of countries (like Australia and New Zealand) who will drop the UK and the Commonwealth once the Queen dies or steps down.
Well, on that (if little else) I am on the NZ/Oz side. Could we not just drop Charlie-boy and Willie and just skip to a different Royal family: how about Farage?
At the end of the day, the only reason we have a monarchy is that centuries ago, some hard bastard made himself ‘King.’ Therefore, the whole idea of a monarchy is terribly outdated.
We must all wonder how Spotify could possibly go against the advice of two such towering intellects (a C-list actress and a B-list royal). I suppose one could argue that they are experts when it comes to misinformation (and that’s a polite word for what they spout).
You can almost smell their desperation to stay relevant.
More likely the bleach 🙂
I just realised that her b-hole is most likely bleached.
The rest of her is….
As the narrative starts to look shaky, those pushing it are becoming more desperate. Rogan frightens them because he is hard to cancel.
The DT lies by omission by leaving out the touched couple’s multi million $$ deal with Spotify /Netflix…..
Wonder why that is.