{"id":77454,"date":"2022-02-07T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T04:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/spotify-to-invest-100-million-for-content-from-marginalized-groups\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T04:19:55","slug":"spotify-to-invest-100-million-for-content-from-marginalized-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/spotify-to-invest-100-million-for-content-from-marginalized-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify to Invest $100 Million for Content From &#8216;Marginalized Groups&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Spotify-to-Invest-100-Million-for-Content-From-Marginalized-Groups.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list summary-list-variant\">\n<li>Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told staff the platform won&#8217;t be &#8220;silencing&#8221; Joe Rogan following criticism.<\/li>\n<li>Artists pulled their music from Spotify over Rogan&#8217;s COVID-19 misinformation and racial language.<\/li>\n<li>Ek said the platform would be investing $100 million for content from &#8220;marginalized groups.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup\n                          inline-newsletter-signup-variant\n                         headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-list=\"Morning Brew\" data-acq-source=\"morningbrew\" data-event-label=\"morning_brew\" data-origin=\"MorningBrew\" data-campaign=\"news\"><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said the company will invest $100 million for &#8220;licensing, development, marketing of music and audio content from historically marginalized groups,&#8221; according to an internal memo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarafischer\/status\/1490511979819278339?s=20&amp;t=8dZ2Q669Me6RNz9H3Y-gpg\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">obtained by Axios reporter Sara Fischer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move follows criticism of the platform over Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast. Ek told employees in the memo that he won&#8217;t be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/spotify-ceo-streamer-wont-silence-joe-rogan-68bb602d-ed95-426a-bc5e-27c24c79b1cd.html\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;silencing&#8221; Rogan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The podcaster was the subject of controversy in the past few weeks after Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify over Rogan&#8217;s spreading of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. Young&#8217;s move prompted other artists to pull their music as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Rogan also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/spotify-joe-rogan-apologizes-for-using-n-word-india-arie-2022-2\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">apologized for using the N-word on his podcast<\/a> after a video montage put together by artist India Arie showing him using the slur 24 times went viral.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not my word to use,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the memo, Ek said the platform had talks with Rogan and his team about content, &#8220;including his history of using some racially insensitive language,&#8221; and that Rogan chose to have some episodes pulled from the platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ek said while he opposes what Rogan said, he&#8217;s not going to cut ties with the platform&#8217;s top podcaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I strongly condemn what Joe has said and I agree with his decision to remove past episodes from our platform, I realize some will want more. And I want to make one point very clear \u2013 I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer,&#8221; Ek wrote in the memo to staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ek said the company should have clear lines about content but said &#8220;canceling voices is a slippery slope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spotify did not immediately respond to Insider&#8217;s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told staff the platform won&#8217;t be &#8220;silencing&#8221; Joe Rogan following criticism. Artists pulled their music from Spotify over Rogan&#8217;s COVID-19 misinformation and racial language. Ek said the platform would be investing $100 million for content from &#8220;marginalized groups.&#8221; Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said the company will invest $100 million for &#8220;licensing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":77455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Spotify-to-Invest-100-Million-for-Content-From-Marginalized-Groups.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}