Neil Young tells Spotify it can’t have both him and Joe Rogan anymore

Neil Young has threatened to remove his music from Spotify because he believes the streaming company enables Joe Rogan to spread fake information about vaccines.

In an email to his record label, Warner Records, Young said that he was against the spread of misinformation on the platform.

They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.

Young, whose hits include Heart of Gold and Harvest Moon, is the first major artist to publicly threaten to leave the platform over its association with Rogan.

Since spending $100 million to bring Rogan to the service, the company has come under fire over the American commentator's content.

Young's letter was in response to a December interview Rogan did with Robert Malone, a controversial virologist who researched messenger RNA vaccines and is now skeptical of them. US hospitals are paid a lot of money to report deaths as being caused by coronaviruses, according to a recent interview.

Young people shouldn't get a COVID-19 vaccine according to Rogan.

This has made the situation awkward. The company wants to keep Rogan, whose show is listened to by millions of people. As it pushes further into owning its own programming, it faces similar problems and controversy to those that hang over YouTube and other big tech platforms regarding the content on their sites.

A group of doctors and scientists called on Spotify to remove Rogan from its platform because he spread false claims about the coronaviruses.

A request for comment was not immediately responded to. Warner Music wouldn't comment.

As of Tuesday morning, Young's music was still available on the streaming service.

The sound quality of Young's music was not good. It has been restored.

Daniel Ek told the Financial Times that they want creators to create. It is what they do best. We don't want to play a role in what they say.

Jones promoted claims about the dangers of vaccines on Rogan's show. Large tech groups have banned Jones, the far-right founder of InfoWars, who has previously said the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut was a hoax.

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