How Spotify becomes a playground for ideologues

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The Swedish streaming company is currently heavily criticized.

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Berlin It starts out so harmless. Banter about football fans’ ecstasy when their favorite team wins. But then the podcast changes pitch. The federal government is compared with the GDR regime and indirectly also with the Nazi regime, the vaccinations against Covid-19 are a “euthanasia program” planned by Bill Gates, a “decision by the elites to reduce the population”.

Corrupt press and judiciary would play their part. “Nuremberg II will come, even if we are not allowed to talk about it again for 15 years, because no taboo lasts forever,” it says. The title of the program: “Vaccination sets you free?”

Ken Jebsen speaks, a former RBB journalist who has repeatedly drawn attention to himself with corona conspiracy myths. His channel “KenFM” was permanently blocked from YouTube in November 2020, and his website of the same name was monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

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