Royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are quite used to causing controversy every time they speak. So it’s no surprise that when they jumped into the hot mess of controversy currently going on with Joe Rogan, Spotify, musicians, and many opinions on what constitutes misinformation, there was bound to be trouble.
Harry and Meghan have apparently been “urging” Spotify to take a stance against misinformation since last year. They didn’t join Neil Young and Joni Mitchell with a boycott, but they did allude to being less-than-happy with Spotify for continuing to host Rogan’s massively popular podcast.
The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens didn’t mince words when she criticized the couple’s statement.
She tweeted, “Everyday Harry and Meghan wake up and think ‘how can we make millions more people around the world hate us?’ ‘Oh, I heard Joe Rogan has 50 million unique listeners— let’s write an open letter indicating our inherent self-importance, and demand Spotify begin censoring him.’”
She continued in the thread, “Next up from Harry and Meghan—a one on one sit down with Oprah declaring that Truckers everywhere are racist to their 75% white and extraordinarily wealthy son.”
“A brief follow up from Harry and Meghan—’But we just want our privacy…’”
The president of conservative foundation Judicial Watch Tom Fitton wrote: “Breaking: Foreign national Prince Harry, and family member of foreign head of state, wants to censor @JoeRogan and millions of other Americans.”
Noted provocateur and royal critic Piers Morgan shared his unsurprising view on the statement. He replied to royal journalist Omid Scobie’s tweet announcing the statement by saying, “If anyone knows about ‘spreading disinformation’, it’s these two disingenuous clowns & their sycophantic media lickspittle.”
U.K. based journalist Nick Stylianou hinted at bigger issues between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the streaming platform.
He wrote: “This is an interesting angle on the current issue Harry & Meghan have with Spotify, which is that the platform paid them £18 million [$24 million] in December 2020 to deliver original podcasts but published nothing in 12 months and now Spotify is having to take over production to make content.”
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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