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Keep on rockin’ in the unfree world

5 February 2022

9:00 AM

5 February 2022

9:00 AM

It was a glorious moment. Fading rock star Neil Young cast down the gauntlet to streaming platform Spotify. It would have to choose, he declared in an open letter to his manager, between hosting his music or comedian Joe Rogan, the world’s most popular podcaster. He was issuing the ultimatum, he explained, ‘because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines—potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.

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