The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced months ago that they had signed a lucrative collaboration agreement with Spotify, an association that will lead in the coming months to the premiere of the royal couple’s first podcast on the famous platform.
According to the note shared by Archewell Audio, the division of Harry and Meghan’s solidarity foundation that is dedicated precisely to the production of radio content, Markle wants to personally combat misinformation on the internet through the first of its programs, although it is unknown what specific topics it will deal with in its broadcasts.
It is expected that the issues on which the program will focus will be of a social and political nature, but it would not be surprising if the Duchess herself Take advantage of your privileged platform to dismantle some of the myths that have been spreading about you, many of them coming from your own family.
The decision of in predicting his radio career with a space designed to attack ‘fake news’ has a lot to do with the controversy in which the platform itself was involved in defending the right to freedom of expression of Joe Rogan, who used his podcast in the platform to give visibility to “alternative” theories about the coronavirus pandemic, which openly questioned the efficacy of vaccines.
Even despite the fact that Spotify announced that it would take measures to combat misinformation about the Covid including a warning in all its contents, the couple made up of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did not hesitate to transmit their concern to the platform in a statement.
“Millions of people are affected for the serious harms of disinformation and misinformation rampant every day. Last April, our co-founders began raising concerns with our partners at Spotify about the all-too-real consequences of misinformation about COVID-19 on their platform,” said a spokesperson for Spotify. Archewell Foundation.