Spotify will start adding “content advisory”to any podcast episode that touches on Covid-19, directing users to “trusted sources” on the pandemic, such as information shared by public health authorities, as well as by “scientists” and “academics,” CEO Daniel Ek announced on Sunday.
In addition, the service will make sure that creators “understand accountability” if they release content deemed in violation of the platform’s rules. The rules, which were made public on Sunday, describe as “dangerous” content that dismisses Covid-19 as “a hoax” and “promotes or suggests”that coronavirus vaccines “are designed to cause death.”
Promoting the concept of natural immunity as a substitute for vaccines – that is “encouraging people to purposely get infected with Covid-19 in order to build immunity to it” – has also made the blacklist.
