In her op-ed, she said she had chosen to make another “small stand” by joining Young, Mitchell and “a growing group of creators”.
That's all there really is to say about that. It won't move any sort of needle but I removed my podcast from Spotify. Gay had, earlier on Tuesday (1 February), tweeted she would be removing her podcast The Roxanne Gay Agenda from Spotify over its continued association with Rogan and the rampant misinformation about Covid-19, vaccines and climate change. He provoked more backlash after allowing controversial clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson to go on lengthy “rants” of climate misinformation during an episode that was released on 25 January. Rogan had last year interviewed doctor Robert Malone, who falsely claimed on The Joe Rogan Experience, that Americans were “hypnotised” into wearing masks and getting vaccines. The anti-Spotify camp currently includes singer Joni Mitchell, folk rock band Crosby, Stills and Nash, musicians India Arie and Nils Lofgren, as well as podcast host Brene Brown.
