Joe Rogan says he’ll do better research on COVID-19 amid Spotify controversy

Joe Rogan says he’ll do better research on COVID-19 amid Spotify controversy

As a growing number of musicians yanked their work from the streaming service Spotify over misinformation about coronavirus vaccines, podcaster Joe Rogan posted a video this weekend admitting he could do more to better inform his millions of listeners, particularly when it comes to COVID-19. Rogan, in a nearly 10-minute video Sunday night on Instagram, said he’ll make two changes to his show, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience,’ to accomplish that. The first: have mainstream experts give their viewpoints after guests espousing more fringe opinions. The second: “do my best to make sure that I’ve researched these topics — the controversial ones in particular — and have all the pertinent facts at hand before I discuss them.” “I don’t always get it right,” he said. Rogan’s comments came amid a firestorm after hundreds of medical professionals called out Spotify earlier this month for letting the podcaster spread “false and societally harmful assertions” about the virus and vaccines, The Washington Post reported. Then, starting with folk rocker Neil Young a week ago, a growing number of artists and podcasters told the streaming service they would take their work off Spotify if the company did not stop Rogan from spreading covid misinformation. “I