The announcement came shortly before Spotify, which promised new measures against misinformation after it came under heavy criticism this week.
"Last April, our co-founders began raising concerns with our partners at Spotify about the very real consequences of Covid-19-related misinformation on their platform," the Archewell spokeswoman said, assuring that the couple had reiterated since their concerns, in a press release sent to AFP.
The couple had entered into a multi-year partnership with Spotify in December 2020 to produce a podcast called "Archewell Audio", a contract estimated at $ 25 million by several media including the New York Post and the BBC.
On Sunday, Spotify announced new measures to combat Covid-19 misinformation on its platform.
The world number one in music streaming will notably introduce links in all podcasts evoking the Covid, to guide its users to factual and scientifically sourced information, announced its CEO and founder Daniel Ek in a press release.
This week, folk-rock legend Neil Young announced his retirement from the platform.
The singer, who denounces "lies sold for money", is engaged in a fight against popular and controversial American host Joe Rogan's podcast, hosted exclusively on Spotify.
Country singer Joni Mitchell and rocker Nils Lofgren have since followed him, and a hashtag has popped up on social media, #deleteSpotify.
Neil Young has 2.4 million subscribers and more than six million listeners per month on Spotify, the world leader in music streaming.
But Joe Rogan's podcast, which has racked up millions of plays, was number 1 on Spotify in 2021.
Joe Rogan, whose contract signed with Spotify last year is estimated at $100 million, is accused of discouraging young people from vaccination and pushing the use of an unauthorized treatment, the ivermectin, against the virus.
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