“The idea was, these employees who complain somehow have some control over Joe Rogan, and then that just spiraled completely out of control online,” the source said. The source added that employees can create as much of a din as they want, but management ultimately follows the money when making content decisions. “That’s just being a part of the culture (at Spotify).” “It is not unusual at all for employees to debate on Slack it’s not unusual at all for debate (with) members of the leadership team openly in one place,” the insider told TheWrap. “In the case of Joe Rogan, a total of 10 meetings have been held with various groups and individuals to hear their respective concerns, and some of them want Rogan removed because of things he’s said in the past,” sources told Vice.Īlso Read: Why Insurance Is Still a Roadblock to Restarting Production (Hint: Premiums Cost 10 Times More)Īn insider at the company said meetings aren’t an indicator of any show being canceled or renegotiated. These episodes - and Rogan’s overall bull-in-a-china-shop approach - caused nearly a dozen internal meetings at Spotify in recent weeks, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told Vice. I repeated it without looking into it and it was a really f-ing stupid mistake that won’t happen again,” Rogan said. “I was very irresponsible not looking into it before I repeated it. Rogan later apologized after social media backlash, saying on Twitter the information turned out to be false. In the episode, Rogan said police had “arrested people for lighting forest fires up there … They’ve arrested left-wing people for lighting these forest fires.” 18, contained inaccurate information: Rogan peddled a conspiracy theory about protesters in Portland, Ore., setting wildfires.
One episode which Rogan later apologized for, with British conservative commentator Douglas Murray from Sept.
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The podcast host, who has created 1,500-plus episodes dating back to the podcast’s debut over a decade ago, was an expensive bet for Spotify and a risky one, but the company knew full well what it was getting into and carefully negotiated the deal so it wouldn’t be responsible for any of Rogan’s creative decisions, just the distribution of the podcast, one person familiar with the deal said.Ī Spotify spokesperson told TheWrap that the company doesn’t publicize its content removal process or which content has been taken down, to avoid encouraging bad actors to game the system or drawing extra attention to problematic content.Īs of now, no episodes of the “Joe Rogan Experience” have been deleted from Spotify because of user complaints.Īlso Read: 'Genshin Impact' Earns $60 Million in First Week to Become Second Fastest-Growing Mobile Game Vice reported in late September that employees threatened to strike if certain episodes weren’t removed, but no action has been taken. One recent offending episode was a July 16 show with social theorist Abigail Shrier, where Shrier spewed what was described by Men’s Health magazine as “ vile transphobic hate speech.” Rogan engaged in a lengthy discussion with Shrier comparing social transitioning among trans and nonbinary people to being in a cult or having autism. Spotify employees were expressing discontent about Rogan’s views long before he came to the company, an insider said, but recent episodes added tinder to the flames. He added, “The videos easily get millions of views within a few weeks, on top of the podcast downloads.”Īlso Read: Disney Sets Major Reorganization Around Disney+ “Spotify buying Rogan is the biggest move they could possibly make for a single show - and they’re moving not just the audio to Spotify, but the videos are being removed from YouTube and put on Spotify too,” Dave Zohrob, chief executive of podcast ranking platform Chartable, told TheWrap.
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Though he identifies as liberal and endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016, Rogan often runs afoul of minority social groups online. Rogan, a former UFC commentator and “Fear Factor” host, is particularly critical of the LGBT community and vocally opposed the integration of transgender women athletes into female sports leagues. His tendency to have practically any guest on the show to talk, unrestrained, about any topic, has steered “The Joe Rogan Experience” into choppy waters. Rogan’s content will be exclusively hosted on Spotify beginning this December.