(Reuters) – Joe Rogan, the favored U.S. podcaster, issued an apology for the second time in every week, this time for utilizing racial slurs after a montage video surfaced displaying him repeatedly saying the N-word.
In an apology video posted on Instagram on Saturday, Rogan mentioned it was the “most regretful and shameful factor that I’ve ever needed to discuss publicly.” Throughout the video, Rogan mentioned footage that emerged of him utilizing the epithet had been taken out of context, however appeared “horrible, even to me.”
Rogan’s apology got here after Grammy award successful singer-songwriter India Arie pulled her music from the Spotify streaming service, which hosts Rogan’s podcast, after posting clips on her Instagram feed displaying Rogan utilizing the N-word.
Media experiences on Saturday mentioned greater than 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast had been faraway from the Spotify Know-how SA service.
Spotify didn’t return a request for remark.
On Monday, Rogan had apologized amid a backlash in opposition to COVID-19 misinformation in his program, and Spotify mentioned it will add a content material advisory to any episode with dialogue of the virus.
Rogan, a distinguished vaccine skeptic, has stirred controversy along with his views on the pandemic and on vaccines and authorities mandates to manage the unfold of the virus.
Singer-songwriters Neil Younger and Joni Mitchell introduced final week that they had been eradicating their music from Spotify in protest at coronavirus misinformation broadcast on the platform.
(Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington; Enhancing by Diane Craft and Daniel Wallis)
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