What Next TBD: Spotify’s Joe Rogan Mess

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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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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0:00.0	A brand new movie from the Paw Patrol is ready to launch.
0:03.8	Did he say launch?
0:04.8	No, I said launch.
0:07.8	This October, we got superpowers.
0:10.0	Awesome.
0:11.0	Prepare for a movie event so enormous.
0:13.0	Go right in with the big does now.
0:15.0	You'll need to see it on the biggest screen possible.
0:19.0	We're going to need a new name for ourselves.
0:20.5	How about the Paw Patrol?
0:22.0	Paw Patrol.
0:23.0	We're just a little bit extra.
0:24.5	Paw Patrol, the Mighty Movie, it's the first this weekend.
0:27.5	Only in cinema.
0:28.5	So October 13, book tickets now.
0:58.5	By now, there's a familiar rhythm.
1:06.5	Every time a major tech company has a speech controversy.
1:09.5	First, somebody writes or says something outrageous or inflammatory.
1:13.5	Then there's a backlash.
1:15.5	Then apologies or promises to do better.
1:18.5	Then sometimes a backlash to the backlash.
1:21.5	Which made me wonder what stage the ongoing Joe Rogan's Spotify mess had reached.
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