What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Spotify’s Joe Rogan Mess
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
For Spotify, the last month has seen a cascade of controversies around its exclusive podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Is it time for the streaming service to rethink its role as a podcast publisher? And is it even possible to moderate podcast misinformation?
Guest: Evelyn Douek, lecturer at Harvard Law School, and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Host: Lizzie O’Leary
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| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is |
| 0:13.6 | then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps |
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| 0:21.6 | but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
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| 0:31.6 | trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table and the cat taking down the tree. |
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| 1:04.4 | By now there's a familiar rhythm. Every time a major tech company has a speech controversy. |
| 1:09.9 | First somebody writes or says something outrageous or inflammatory. |
| 1:14.0 | Then there's a backlash, then apologies or promises to do better, |
| 1:18.1 | then sometimes a backlash to the backlash. Which made me wonder what stage the ongoing Joe Rogan's |
| 1:25.2 | Spotify mess had reached. I feel like we're doing a speed run through the lifecycle of a user-generated |
| 1:32.0 | content platform. Spotify is on a steep learning curve. That's Evelyn Duac, a lecturer at Harvard |
| 1:38.8 | Law School who studies online speech. And Spotify, which is the exclusive home of Rogan's |
| 1:44.4 | blockbuster podcast, has been in an uncomfortable spotlight since late December. Over Rogan's history |
| 1:49.7 | of frequently broadcasting COVID misinformation. Under the guise of just asking questions. |
| 1:55.3 | Yeah, I think for the most part it's safe to get vaccinated. I do. I do. But if you're like |
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