Prince Harry and Meghan Markle weigh in on recent Spotify COVID-19 row

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Spotify row, revealing they reached out to the platform last year about the spread of COVID misinformation.Neil Young and Joni Mitchell announced this past week that they were planning on removing their music from Spotify because of the spread of misinformation on the Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast the platform hosts.“Please immediately inform Spotify that I am actively canceling all my music availability on Spotify as soon as possible,” Young wrote in an open letter. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading false information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.He added: “They can have Rogan or Young.

Not both.”Now, a statement from a spokesperson in the Duke and Duchess’ camp, shared online by journalist Omid Scobie, who penned the pair’s much-contested biography, Finding Freedom, claims the couple reached out to Spotify last year to address “the real-time global misinformation crisis”.“Since the inception of Archewell [the pair’s non-profit organization], we have worked to address the real-time global misinformation crisis.

Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the serious harms of rampant mis- and disinformation every day,” the statement began“Last April, our co-founders began expressing concerns to our partners at Spotify about the all too real consequences of COVID-19 misinformation on its platform.