Posted on 01/30/2022 1:28:41 PM PST by shadowlands1960
Today we are publishing our long-standing Platform Rules. These policies were developed by our internal team in concert with a number of outside experts and are updated regularly to reflect the changing safety landscape. These are rules of the road to guide all of our creators—from those we work with exclusively to those whose work is shared across multiple platforms. You can now find them on our newsroom, and they’ll live permanently on the main Spotify website. They are being localized into various languages to help our users understand how Spotify assesses all content on our platform.
We are working to add a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19. This advisory will direct listeners to our dedicated COVID-19 Hub, a resource that provides easy access to data-driven facts, up-to-date information as shared by scientists, physicians, academics and public health authorities around the world, as well as links to trusted sources. This new effort to combat misinformation will roll out to countries around the world in the coming days. To our knowledge, this content advisory is the first of its kind by a major podcast platform.
We will also begin testing ways to highlight our Platform Rules in our creator and publisher tools to raise awareness around what’s acceptable and help creators understand their accountability for the content they post on our platform. This is in addition to the terms that creators and publishers agree to governing their use of our services.
I want you to know that from the very first days of the pandemic, Spotify has been biased toward action. We launched a variety of educational resources and campaigns to raise awareness and we developed and promoted a global COVID-19 Information Hub. We donated ad inventory to various organizations for vaccine awareness, funds to the World Health Organization and COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) to increase vaccine equity and supported the Go Give One fundraising campaign. And we established a music relief project to support the creative community. While this is not a complete list, I hope it gives you a sense of how seriously we’ve approached the pandemic as a company.
I trust our policies, the research and expertise that inform their development, and our aspiration to apply them in a way that allows for broad debate and discussion, within the lines. We take this seriously and will continue to partner with experts and invest heavily in our platform functionality and product capabilities for the benefit of creators and listeners alike. That doesn’t mean that we always get it right, but we are committed to learning, growing and evolving.
Think I'm wrong? What other drug, prescription or OTC, needs an "approved" information section? What other medical procedure, from elective to life-saving needs an "approved" information section?
Remember, the main reason for "approved" information is to discredit any unofficial unapproved information. Covid and the vaxes are now all about power and control.
I think they want meat in the form of Rogan’s head on a platter...
In the end, Spotify will lose Rogan and go under anyway. The Left actually wants it that way as they want to turn Spotify into another impossible-to-miss example of what happens to those who oppose them.
Fact check: Neil Young never sat in a bombed out basement.
They caved!
I agree with both of you. I also do not think the plan will work.
In other words, he’s the AntiHannity.
Force those who are saying Rogan is spreading misinformation to actually cite the supposed misinformation. Podcast date and time stamps. Otherwise, they’re full of Obama.
None of their damned business.
Spotify , when I see it I delete , it’s a virus
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LOL, yes.
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