Time magazine's shortlist for their annual Person of the Year honour features royalty, political power players and podcasting chart-toppers. Last year, superstar Taylor Swift was named Time's Person of the Year, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and "the spirit of Ukraine" named in 2022. Previous entries: Trump was named Time's Person of the Year in 2016, the year he won …
NEW YORK — Jon Jones had just knocked the breath out of the heavyweight challenger he pummeled into retirement when UFC’s greatest fighter broke out a herky-jerky dance inside the cage and dedicated the groove to President-elect Donald Trump. As a defeated Stipe Miocic gamely tried to recover on all fours, Jones posed and played to the packed crowd on …
NEW YORK — Like Facebook and Twitter, Spotify is learning the limits of deflecting responsibility for what is said on its platform. But experts say that is difficult to defend after Spotify reportedly spent $100 million to become the sole distributor of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “They are acting like they should get treated as a platform -- when they …
It seems American podcaster Joe Rogan’s controversial episode on COVID-19 misinformation has caused audio streaming platform Spotify a loss of $2 billion in market value. According to a report by Variety, the Swedish audio streaming company’s market capitalisation fell about $2.1 billion a span of three days last week after folk rocker Neil Young removed his songs from Spotify to …
