Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has apologized to staff after past racist comments made by podcast host Joe Rogan were posted on social media, prompting the company to scrub scores of episodes from the audio platform. Ek sent an email to Spotify employees over the weekend after a musician posted a supercut to social media showing Rogan repeatedly using racist terms during past episodes of his podcast....
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