
Some platforms’ policies specifically address the virus: Twitter users, for example, can’t “share false or misleading information about COVID-19 which may lead to harm.” Other policies are more generic, but can be applied to COVID-19, such as Apple Podcasts’ restriction on content “that may lead to harmful or dangerous outcomes.” Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many popular digital content platforms have adopted “misinformation” policies to limit users from sharing inaccurate or misleading information like hyping unproven treatments or making wild accusations about federally approved vaccines. Joe Rogan announces the fighters during a ceremonial weigh in for UFC 264 at T-Mobile Arena on Jin Las Vegas, Nevada. Meanwhile Engadget reports the total number of deleted Rogan episodes is now 113.Updated: FebruPublished: January 27, 2022 UPDATE: Joe Rogan has issued an apology after a compilation of him using racial slurs began circulating online and was shared by India Aria, one of the artists who pulled music from Spotify. It’s unclear if they were pulled due to problematic language or something else. The most recent one is from December 2018, well before the pandemic began.

The episodes in question feature guests including Pete Holmes, Dan Savage, Iliza Shlesinger, Shane Smith, Marc Maron, Amy Schumer, Maynard J Keenan, Bill Burr, Andy Dick, Nick Swardson, Little Esther, Duncan Trussell, and Brian Posehn.Ĭuriously, none of the episodes removed have anything to do with COVID.


The website, which automatically tracks the removal of Joe Rogan Experience episodes in the US by comparing the official Spotify API with a database of all episodes ever released, has detected that 70 episodes suddenly disappeared on Friday. Spotify has taken down dozens of episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience amid the ongoing controversy over the podcast’s spread of COVID misinformation, which has caused artists like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Nils Lofgren to remove their music from the platform.
