Here is the Spotify COVID content policy that lets Joe Rogan slide

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The executive leadership of the company has mostly stayed out of the public eye, even though their employees are upset about the deal with Joe Rogan. Dustee Jenkins, the head of global communications and public relations at the company, posted a message to the company on the topic of Joe Rogan's presence on the platform after Neil Young removed his music in protest.

The company has reviewed multiple controversial Joe Rogan Experience episodes and determined they didn't meet the threshold for removal, according to a statement from the leader of Public Affairs.

She said that they are working to address that as soon as possible, because they haven't done enough.

The internal company content guidelines page has been viewed by The Verge. The entire healthcare guidelines section is reproduced below. It does not.

Content that promotes dangerous false or deceptive content about healthcare that may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health such as:

Denying the existence of AIDS or COVID-19

Encouraging the deliberate contracting of a serious or life threatening disease or illness

Suggesting that consuming bleach can cure various illnesses and diseases

Suggesting that wearing a mask will cause the wearer imminent, life-threatening physical harm

Promoting or suggesting that the vaccines are designed to cause death

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The guidelines seem to allow people to say the vaccines cause death, just not that they are designed to cause death. They allow people to say that wearing a mask isn't effective, just not that wearing masks will cause life-threatening harm.

The content policy and the statement have been reached out to by The Verge, but they haven't heard back.

They apply their policies consistently and objectively. It doesn't mean that I agree with the content. I trust our policies and rationale.

She said that every creator must abide by the policies.

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