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The music of Crosby, Stills & Nash has returned to Spotify after a boycott that lasted five months. Back in February, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash announced they were joining their friend and old bandmate Neil Young’s protest against the streaming platform after he stated it was spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccinations.

The three wrote a joint statement that read: “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast. While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences. Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music — or the music we made together — to be on the same platform.”

Days ago, Nash issued a new statement saying that Spotify has taken “taken a positive step by adding a Covid content advisory to podcasts that include a conversation about Covid, directing listeners to a Covid information hub.” He added in his statement that the group will donate the funds from their initial month back on the platform to charities that support COVID-19 charities.

Since Young’s protest, Spotify has created an advisory that directs listeners to Spotify’s dedicated COVID-19 Hub, which provides easy access to data-driven facts; timely information shared by physicians, scientists, public health authorities and academics from around the world. Upon the inception of the hub, the platform shared, “This new effort to combat misinformation will roll out to countries around the world in the coming days. To our knowledge, this content advisory is the first of its kind by a major podcast platform.”

Along with Crosby, Stills and Nash, Young was joined in his boycott by high-profile artists like Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren and more; their music remains absent from the platform at the time of this report.