Medical professionals call for Spotify to implement a COVID misinformation policy, citing Joe Rogan's podcast
270 health professionals wrote an open letter asking Spotify to take action against Rogan's harmful misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic

With more and more episodes full of harmful misinformation about COVID, it’s easy to feel nostalgic for the days that the Joe Rogan Experience featured episodes in which Joe Rogan boasted about his all-meat diet that gave him explosive diarrhea. After the host told people without health conditions to not get vaccinated and touted ivermectin (a drug used to treat horses for parasites) as a “cure”—even after testing positive for COVID himself—medical professionals have had enough.
As reported by Rolling Stone, 270 doctors, physicians, and academics penned an open letter to Spotify, asking for the streaming service to “implement a misinformation policy” as Rogan continuously shares false information about COVID. The letter specifically points out the harmful nature of the episode released on December 31, which featured a phony anti-vaccine “scientist” Robert Malone, who’d been banned from Twitter for sharing COVID misinformation.