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What Next TBD: Spotify’s Joe Rogan Mess

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 22 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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me wonder what stage the ongoing Joe Rogan's Spotify mess had reached.

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