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  NurPhoto via Getty Images Spotify has been removing  Joe Rogan Experience  ( JRE ) episodes since Friday, and as of this writing, the service has pulled down a total of 113. As first noticed by  Gizmodo , around 70 episodes have recently disappeared from the platform. Based on the  website  dedicated to monitoring which of the show's episodes aren't available on the service, those were removed on February 4th, in addition to the 40 deleted some time ago. However, the newly deleted episodes don't seem to be connected with the  COVID-19 controversy  surrounding the show and the service right now. Several artists have  exited  Spotify recently because of Rogan's COVID-19-related episodes. An  open letter  addressed to the host from doctors and scientists pointed out that he had made several misleading claims about the virus in the past and promoted the use of ivermectin to treat it. They take the most issue with one specific ep...