As Spotify’s market value drops, the CEO says the platform won’t be a “content censor” but will have “rules in place”.
Audio streaming giant Spotify has today responded to mounting controversy surrounding Covid vaccine misinformation by stating it will add content advisory warnings to any podcasts on the platform that cover the topic of the pandemic. In a blog post from CEO Daniel Ek, it was also announced that the service has published its ‘ platform rules ‘, the first time it’s made public the content guidelines that it upholds for its content creators – both exclusive Spotify partners and any other contributor that shares on the platform. Among these guidelines, there is a section dedicated to disallowing “Content that promotes dangerous false or dangerous deceptive medical information that may cause offline harm or poses a direct threat to public health”.
