{"id":2160,"date":"2022-01-14T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:34:56","slug":"is-spotify-a-publisher-or-a-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/14\/is-spotify-a-publisher-or-a-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Spotify a publisher or a platform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/01\/13\/lifestyle\/hundreds-doctors-scientists-sign-petition-demanding-spotify-take-action-against-covid-misinformation-sparked-by-joe-rogan-podcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hundreds of doctors have signed a petition<\/a> asking Spotify to &#8220;take action&#8221; against Joe Rogan. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, the company presently has no misinformation policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That quote highlights the problem. If Spotify is a publisher, it does have responsibility for the content it releases. If Spotify is a &#8220;platform,&#8221; it does not. <\/p>\n<p>Congress is seriously derelict in its duty on this one. This issue should have been handled many years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of doctors have signed a petition asking Spotify to &#8220;take action&#8221; against Joe Rogan. Though Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, the company presently has no misinformation policy. That quote highlights the problem. If Spotify is a publisher, it does have responsibility for the content it releases. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/14\/is-spotify-a-publisher-or-a-platform\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Spotify a publisher or a platform?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}