Hundreds of scientists, professors, doctors, nurses and other public health professionals have urged the streaming platform to crack down on misinformation about Covid-19.
In an open letter published online this week, the experts pointed out an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" that featured a vaccine skeptic who claims to have created the technology used in some coronaviruses. They said Mr. Rogan had a history of making false claims on his show.
The letter said that by allowing the propagation of false and societally harmful assertions, it was enabling its hosted media to damage public trust in scientific research and sow doubt in the credibility of data-driven guidance offered by medical professionals. It called on the company to create a policy to moderate misinformation on its platform.
The record was not comment on by the company. The company said that it prohibits dangerous, false or deceptive content about Covid-19 that may cause offline harm or pose a threat to public health.
According to the letter, Dr. Malone promoted a number of false claims about the vaccine on Mr. Rogan's show.
PolitiFact reported earlier this month that Dr. Malone was banned from the social network for violating the company's misinformation policy against Covid-19 and that videos of an interview he did with Mr. Rogan were removed from the internet.
The show is a series of conversations on topics including but not limited to comedy, cage-fighting, psychedelics, quantum mechanics and criticism of the political left. In 2020, the show was licensed to the streaming service for an estimated $100 million. Mr. Rogan was reprimanded by the Biden administration and Prince Harry for comments he made about vaccinations.
The episode of the show featuring Dr. Malone was still available to watch on the streaming service.
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