The music streaming service has become an information highway. 🤔 engineering
, a social scientist who studies science and media, the scandal around Rogan misses the point. Science communication researchers are still “arguing about how much being exposed to misinformation actually impacts people’s behavior,” she said.Broussard tells“Is the problem misinformation? No, the problem is the new information ecology… and big corporations trying to make money,” she said. This isn’t the first time technological changes and business innovations have re-made the media landscape.
"The printing press, radio, TV, cable, and the Internet have all brought about genuine revolutions in the way information travels through society. “Spotify is not just a music streaming platform anymore, it’s an informational platform,” Brossard said. That shift brings with it questions about what kind of editorial standards the platform should adhere to, or if everything on it should be regarded as entertainment.
The rules also ban false or deceptive medical information that’s dangerous, like asserting that some diseases aren’t real, that consuming bleach will cure illness, and purposely infecting oneself with Covid to build immunity. Science Vs. , has stopped uploading episodes to protest the misinformation on the platform, saying they do not think the new rules “go far enough,”Rogan has defended himself by saying he doesn't know if what his guests are saying is true.
"I'm not a doctor. I'm not a scientist. I'm just a person who sits down and talks to people and has conversations with them,"While it seems unlikely the scandal will do lasting damage to Spotify, the scandal shows that it has become a major fixture in the complex, overlapping network of platforms where content can easily spread at a massive scale —
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