Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell announced on Friday that she will remove her music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young, who announced earlier this week that he would do the same in protest against the streaming service.

“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” Mitchell wrote in a signed statement posted to her website. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”

In a separate post to her website, Joni Mitchell also republished the “Open Letter to Spotify” signed by over a thousand doctors and scientists speaking against Rogan’s false statements regarding vaccine safety and coronavirus precautions.

Earlier this week, Neil Young asked his management team and record label to remove his music from Spotify, saying the service “is spreading fake information about vaccines” and mentioning Rogan.

“They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” Young said in an open letter posted on his website Monday but which was later removed, according to Rolling Stone magazine. NBC News has not seen the original post, and it is unclear why it was removed from Young’s website.

Spotify on Wednesday said it agreed to remove Young’s music.

Spotify previously responded to complaints about misinformation and said they had “removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID since the start of the pandemic.” Spotify’s CEO has said the company doesn’t dictate what Rogan can say on its platform and argues that Spotify is not editorially responsible.