The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer joins Neil Young and Joni Mitchell who are also pulling their music from the streaming service.
on Saturday, Lofgren urged others to stand with "hundreds of health care professionals, scientists, doctors and nurses in calling out Spotify for promoting lies and misinformation that are hurting and killing people."
Lofgren said the last 27 years of his music has already been taken off Spotify and he is working with music labels to get the earlier songs removed. Spotify is facing backlash for its decision to continue to air Rogan's popular podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience," despite concerns that it is spreading Covid misinformation. Rogan interviewed Dr. Robert Malone, an infectious disease specialist who has become well-known among anti-vaccine Americans. Malone has been banned from
Spotify could not be immediately reached for comment. In a statement on Thursday, the company said it reviews content for misinformation and has "removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic."
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