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Over 3,000 episodes of “The Glenn Beck Program” have been faraway from Apple’s distribution community, possible due to a too-large knowledge feed pointing the service to the podcast.
On Wednesday, Beck took to X to ask Apple why his present had been faraway from Apple Podcasts. He supplied a screenshot that confirmed an electronic mail that learn, “We discovered a problem along with your present, The Glenn Beck Program, which have to be resolved earlier than it is obtainable on Apple Podcasts.”
Apple hasn’t given a precise purpose as to why Beck’s podcast was eliminated. Nevertheless, it is possible given the textual content of the elimination electronic mail that it is a technical concern, and never a political one.
Whereas Apple did not explicitly say this, and may have, the difficulty seems to spawn from the podcast’s considerably outsized RSS feed.
One Twitter consumer, Daniel J. Lewis, famous that the RSS feed for “The Glenn Beck Program” is greater than 11 megabytes. Traditionally, Apple robotically flags RSS information that exceed 5MB. That 5MB warning was most likely exceeded six years in the past given the publication charge of this system.
In all probability, current applications added to the RSS feed exceeded an auto-cutoff measurement, inducing the elimination.
Beck additionally famous that Apple did not warn him that this system violated any of its content material insurance policies, and that his present did not have any strikes towards it. Different related applications like Invoice O’Reilly’s present, and Charlie Kirk aren’t impacted — and each have notably smaller RSS feeds.
