Joni Mitchell Removing Her Music From Spotify: “I Stand With Neil Young!”

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The legendary Joni Mitchell has announced she, too, will remove her music from Spotify because “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives.” Mitchell says she is doing so “in solidarity” with her longtime friend, Neil Young, who requested his music be removed from the service because of Covid misinformation spread on Joe Rogan’s wildly popular Spotify podcast.Mitchell wrote in a post to her personal web site, “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify.

Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”Young, earlier this week wrote, “Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy,’ he wrote, according to numerous media reports. “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform…They can have Rogan or Young.

Not both.”Young, who survived polio as a child, continued, “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.

Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”The streamer later removed his catalog from the service and issued the following statement:We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users.