

Rogan-and Spotify-now find themselves under intense scrutiny, after the controversial podcaster was lambasted by medical professionals for, they said, platforming and enabling harmful anti-vax misinformation and conspiracy theories.Īmid the outcry over Rogan’s promotion of anti-vax misinformation, legendary folk-rock musician Neil Young cut ties with Spotify altogether. He left the company in 2008 and has had no involvement since then. (Disclosure: Gavin McInnes was a co-founder of VICE in the mid-1990s.

“I started this gang called the Proud Boys,” McInnes told Rogan-and his millions of listeners. When McInnes went on Rogan’s podcast in February 2017, few had heard of the burgeoning, black-and-gold-clad street-fighting gang he’d formed only eight months earlier.
