Spotify exec: Joe Rogan saga has been ‘real learning experience’

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Spotify's Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff says the recent controversy surrounding popular podcast host Joe Rogan has been a 'real learning experience' for the company.

to his staff in a memo on Sunday and noted that the company and Rogan's team had agreed to remove a select number of episodes from the platform. About 113 episodes of Rogan's podcast have been pulled from Spotify, according to tracking website JRE Missing.

Daniel Ek, co-founder and chief executive officer of Spotify Technology SA, arrives for the morning session of the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Wednesday, July 10, 2019. While Ek strongly condemned Rogan's previous use of "racially insensitive language," he emphasized that he did not believe in "silencing" Rogan. He added that Spotify would invest $100 million in licensing, development and marketing of music and audio content from "historically marginalized groups."

Ostroff warned on Wednesday that "the dilemma of moderation versus censorship" is one of the biggest challenges facing technology platforms today and urged advertisers to help Spotify find ways to do better.

 

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