As the article states, Neil Young asked his music to be removed, in protest of Joe Rogan being on Spotify.
But his music was removed chronologically after his objection, so just like NYT's title [1], it's not technically a lie, if you read it very very carefully, and we can continue trusting NPR and the NYT.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30092278
