'I first learned of this problem by reading that 200 plus doctors had joined forces, taking on the dangerous life-threatening COVID falsehoods found in Spotify programming. In a post on his website, he added: 'Spotify has recently become a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID.

'I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” Neil Young told his label with regards to him sharing a platform with the podcaster after his COVID episodes. In the US alone, there were nearly 58,000 polio cases and 3,145 deaths in 1952. In 1981, there were an estimated 460,000 polio cases in the world every year. In the late 20th century, two different polio vaccines have worked to have effectively eliminated the disease.

It was the last mass outbreak of polio in the province. He became partially paralysed on the left side of his body. When he was five years old and living in rural Omemee in Ontario, Young contracted polio. More than many people, Neil young understands the power of vaccines to change and improve lives. Rogan also hosted a guest who compared government efforts to mitigate the pandemic to the rise of Nazi Germany. “Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy.He's advocated the use of ivermectin as a coronavirus treatment, even though it's an antiparasitic drug with no proven benefits for treating COVID-19. “With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence,” the letter reads.

Last month, 270 doctors, physicians, and science educators signed an open letter asking Spotify to stop spreading Rogan’s baseless claims. Not both.” Young is referencing the steady stream of misinformation about vaccines that Joe Rogan has peddled on The Joe Rogan Experience. “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continued. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”

“I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” he wrote. Neil Young posted a since-deleted letter to his management team and record label demanding that they remove his music from Spotify.

Neil young spotify ranking