Spotify to direct listeners to accurate Covid information after Joe Rogan outcry

Streaming platform publishes rules for creators and announces plan to tackle misinformation, including ‘content advisories’

Joe Rogan has addressed controversy over Covid misinformation spread on his Spotify podcast, pledging to “try harder to get people with differing opinions on” and “do my best to make sure I’ve researched these topics”.

“A lot of people … have a distorted perception of what I do,” he said in a 10-minute video posted to Instagram, defending two recent episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring guests who shared Covid conspiracy theories, whom he called “highly credentialed … people [with] an opinion that’s different from the mainstream narrative.”