Alain Soral's podcasts now banned from Spotify

The podcasts of far-right essayist Alain Soral have been removed from the Spotify streaming platform, Spotify France said on Wednesday.

"Spotify has decided to remove podcasts and has blocked the ERFM account (the online radio station of Egalité et Réconciliation, a political group co-founded by Alain Soral) from its platform due to non-compliance with its content policy", indicated Spotify France, confirming information from the

site .

The platform did not specify the exact reasons for this exclusion.

In its moderation policy, Spotify says in particular to prohibit content “inciting violence or hatred”, or those which promote “dangerous, false or misleading medical information”.

Globally, Spotify, which is a Swedish company, has in recent days come under heavy criticism over its moderation policy.

An eviction described as "expeditious Zionist justice"

Folk rock legend Neil Young has thus taken the lead in a boycott movement, accusing the streaming giant of hosting the podcast of the very popular but controversial American host Joe Rogan.

The latter is accused of spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 and making racist remarks.

Neil Young was followed by Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell, leading to a movement to unsubscribe from Spotify on social networks.

And Britain's Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan Markle - who have signed an estimated $25 million deal with the platform - expressed "concerns" to the Swedish giant.

In an attempt to put out the fire, the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek, announced the introduction, in all his podcasts evoking the Covid, of links which will guide users to factual and scientifically sourced information.

In France, Alain Soral has already been sentenced twenty times, largely for offenses of incitement to hatred, defamation and anti-Semitic insult.

At the beginning of February, the specialist in conspiracy Tristan Mendès-France had challenged on Twitter, Spotify and other podcast platforms accusing them of hosting the media of Alain Soral.

On its site, Equality and Reconciliation called his ousting from Spotify "expeditious Zionist justice", denouncing "censorship".

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