Streaming giant Spotify has ended its censorship of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast after it was blacklisted by the Swedish platform for the last five years.
“The ban is lifted! The Posse can now get Bannon’s WarRoom on Spotify,” the leading political strategist’s podcast posted on X Tuesday. The podcast had been previously been pulled from Spotify, in addition to other major streaming platforms with the exception of Apple Podcasts, back in November 2020.
“Following its temporary suspension and a constructive dialogue with the show’s team, new ‘Bannon’s WarRoom’ episodes are available on Spotify,” a Spotify spokesperson confirmed in a statement to the New York Post.
Despite the aggressive censorship and removal from major platforms like Facebook and YouTube, Bannon managed to massively grow the show’s reach over the last several years. As of this report, Bannon’s War Room reaches 268 million subscribers across all platforms, making it one of the most wide-reaching shows in the conservative media sphere.
While Bannon welcomes the change, he stressed in a statement to the New York Post that he will never alter the show’s style and subject matter despite censorship threats. “I think our content’s the same, probably more hard hitting than