In the past, Young has removed his music from streaming services, only to quietly reinstate it. Spotify has 318 million monthly listeners around the world, including 172 million who pay for subscriptions, according to the company’s most recent financial disclosures. We’re not looking to play a role in what they should say.” “We want creators to create,” Daniel Ek, the chief executive and co-founder of Spotify, told The Financial Times then. Spotify has defended Rogan in the past, including after an episode that featured the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in 2020. Rogan, a comedian and actor, signed an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify in 2020 that has been reported to be worth $100 million, though Spotify has not confirmed that figure. That letter was removed from Young’s website soon after it was posted, though it drew wide news media attention. I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform.” In his original letter, which Young addressed to his label, Warner Records, and his manager, he said: “Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform. The news that the service was removing his songs was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal. Young’s music was expected to be fully removed from Spotify within hours. In his statement on Wednesday, Young said that Spotify represented 60 percent of the streams of his music around the world. Young’s most popular songs, like “Heart of Gold,” “Harvest Moon” and “Old Man,” have been radio staples for decades, and have attracted hundreds of millions of streams on Spotify.

Global Threat: New research shows that nearly three-quarters of respondents across 19 countries with advanced economies are very concerned about false information online.Media Literacy Efforts: As young people spend more time online, educators are increasingly trying to offer students tools and strategies to protect themselves from false narratives.Russian Falsehoods : Kremlin conspiracy theories blaming the West for disrupting the global food supply have bled into right-wing chat rooms and mainstream conservative news media in the United States.Election Fraud Claims: A new report says that major social media companies continue to fuel false conspiracies about election fraud despite promises to combat misinformation ahead of the midterm elections.

The Spread of Misinformation and Falsehoods

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