Joni Mitchell Says She Will Remove Her Music From Spotify.

Joni Mitchell to Remove Music from Spotify Due to Vaccine Misinformation.

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Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell said she will remove her music from Spotify, following controversy over vaccine misinformation hosted on the streaming platform. Mitchell's decision came two weeks after the company announced it will publish information on the artists in its platform, including their political stances or other controversial beliefs they hold.

"Irresponsible folks a spreading lies that a cost accounting folks their lives," the Canadian musician wrote in a very statement announce on her website Friday. "I substitute commonness with Neil Young and therefore the world scientific and medical communities on this issue."

Neil Young asks for musicians' support as he fights for vaccine truth.

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Mitchell's move comes once Young requested his managers and record label order the immediate removal of all his songs from Spotify, thanks to immunogen information propagated by comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan.

In a now-deleted statement on his website, Rolling Stone reported that 76-year-old Young same the results were "potentially inflicting death to people who believe this misinformation unfolds," adding, "They will have Rogan or Young. Not both."

Yellow Taxi" and "A Case of You," additionally cited Associate in Nursing letter to Spotify printed earlier this month by a coalition of scientists Associate in Nursing medical professionals requesting the implementation of an anti-misinformation policy.

The letter was republished fully on the 78-year-old singer's website, and in it the writers made the public variety of issues concerning Rogan's podcast "The Joe Rogan expertise," that is presently the foremost widespread podcast within the United States and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Spotify.

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Rogan has "discouraged vaccination in teenagers and kids, incorrectly claimed that informational RNA vaccines ar "gene medical care," promoted off-label use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19... and unfold variety of unsupported conspiracy theories," the authors of the letter same.

They additionally same a minimum of 2 recent guests had "compared pandemic policies to the Holocaust" and same information was "a social science issue of devastating proportions and Spotify is accountable for permitting this activity to thrive on its platform."

Spotify later united to get rid of Young's music from their platform, and therefore the hashtag #DeleteSpotify went microorganism amid criticism of Rogan's podcast. Apple Music additionally tweeted weekday that it had been currently "the home of Neil Young."

Young and Mitchell along have nearly ten million monthly listeners on Spotify, with Young having over half dozen million, whereas Mitchell has three.7 million listeners.