“A few days ago, my wife Amy and I became aware of Neil and Daryl standing 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 wrote on the Neil Young Archives.
“We encourage all musicians, artists and music lovers everywhere, to stand with us all, and cut ties with Spotify,” Lofgren said Saturday.
Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information.
Mitchell joined the protest on Friday, stating, “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify.
With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators,” a Spotify spokesperson told The New York Times and The Washington Post in a statement earlier this week.
Robert Malone, an infectious disease expert, promoted “several falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines,” according to the group’s public letter, which was issued on Jan.
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