On Saturday night, in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, Covid conspiracist filmmaker Mikki Willis debuted the fourth film in his Plandemic series to an audience of about 150 fans and fellow travelers. Then, before he and his cast and crew could get into a planned Q&a session, the audience was told it had about five minutes to clear out of the ballroom venue.
“I did not know that,” Willis said after confirming with event workers the screening space had to be empty by 8 p.m.
Unlike the first...
“I did not know that,” Willis said after confirming with event workers the screening space had to be empty by 8 p.m.
Unlike the first...
- 3/10/2024
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Spotify has only spent 10 per cent of the $100 million it pledged to use to support diversity, it has been reported.
The streaming service pledged the money in 2022, following criticism of giving a platform to podcaster Joe Rogan.
In 2021, the 54-year-old podcaster interviewed widely discredited doctor Robert Malone, who claimed on his show The Joe Rogan Experience that Americans were “hypnotised” into wearing masks and getting vaccines.
Soon after that, hundreds of scientists and medical professionals started asking Spotify to address Covid misinformation on Mr Rogan’s controversial episodes about vaccines.
This resulted in an onslaught of musicians and public figures including Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asking Spotify to remove their music and podcasts from the platform.
Although Spotify removed 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience from their platform, they did not terminate Rogan’s contract.
In a memo obtained by Variety at the time,...
The streaming service pledged the money in 2022, following criticism of giving a platform to podcaster Joe Rogan.
In 2021, the 54-year-old podcaster interviewed widely discredited doctor Robert Malone, who claimed on his show The Joe Rogan Experience that Americans were “hypnotised” into wearing masks and getting vaccines.
Soon after that, hundreds of scientists and medical professionals started asking Spotify to address Covid misinformation on Mr Rogan’s controversial episodes about vaccines.
This resulted in an onslaught of musicians and public figures including Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asking Spotify to remove their music and podcasts from the platform.
Although Spotify removed 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience from their platform, they did not terminate Rogan’s contract.
In a memo obtained by Variety at the time,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
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