Spotify Has an Anti-Vaccine Podcast Problem
Do you know where all the anti-vaccine misinformation and propaganda that scares people away from getting vaccinated comes from?
More and more, it is coming from podcasts that are hosted on Spotify.
Spotify Has an Anti-Vaccine Podcast Problem
Don’t believe me?
Let’s take a look…
Of the top 5 podcasts on Spotify, most spout anti-vaccine propaganda.
Most recently, Theo Von of This Past Weekend with Theo Von gave a platform to Peter McCullough to push his revisionist history of the COVID pandemic.
Theo Von also hosted Robert F. Kennedy, Jr…
"I don't care what happens, I'm going to a meeting every day. I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #639
In fact, that’s where we learned that RFK Jr used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats!
What about Shawn Ryan, a former US Navy Seal and Blackwater contractor?
He sends mixed messages about vaccines on The Shawn Ryan Show.
He hosts guests who say they didn’t think the COVID vaccines made sense for kids, but is in favor of them getting an MMR vaccine.
And that newborns should not get the hepatitis B vaccine, and that the vaccines older infants get should be limited to only those which are essential, whatever that means.
Podcasters can say whatever they want with little consequence. Ryan and his ilk rarely push back against the falsehoods their guests spew. Why not? First, they often agree with them, but second? Huberman explains it: “How do you actually convince a guest to communicate what they really believe in if you’re constantly challenging them?”
Meet the New Rogan. Same as the Old Rogan.
Shawn Ryan, when he hosted Gary Brecka, also pushed the idea that you have to detox your blood if you have ever gotten a COVID vaccine!
And while half of Americans now listen to podcasts and expect them to be given them true information, they are often being hit with misinformation, especially about vaccines.
“Wirtschafter's team analyzed 36,000 episodes and found 70 percent of the most popular US podcasts had shared at least one claim debunked by fact-checkers.”
US podcast misinformation goes largely unchecked
What can you do?
Turn them off until they clean up their act!
That’s the only we start getting people vaccinated again and help stop the outbreaks we are seeing.