Rogan has frequently made offensive statements, shared misinformation, and hosted problematic guests on his podcast.
Another six episodes featuring conspiracy theorist David Seaman have also been removed. Spotify appears to be removing controversial episodes of its wildly popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast from its library.Īccording to a report from Digital Music News, 42 episodes of the podcast from the MMA commentator and comedian have been removed from the show's library since spotify purchased the podcast for $100 million in May 2020, though some of the original uploads remain on YouTube.įour episodes with comedian Chris D'Elia, who has been accused of pursuing underage girls on social media, are among the removed episodes, The Wrap reported. I think it’s important to keep in mind that Joe Rogan spreading this misinformation has real-world consequences that can have really dire effects for marginalized people.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. That can take someone from being an everyday person suddenly being fed news and misinformation about QAnon and other right-wing lies.
Let’s say you’re a young man listening to The Joe Rogan Experience, and you want to get tips on bodybuilding or how to eat healthfully, and then Rogan starts discussing that vaccines are a form of gene therapy with Ben Shapiro, and then perhaps you go to Ben Shapiro’s website, The Daily Wire, and there, you fall into a cesspool of hatred and bigotry, and once you click on a Daily Wire article, if you share it on Facebook, you’re just going to be led further and further down the far-right rabbit hole. One thing we’ve done at Media Matters is try to document how social media algorithms and far-right online communities can radicalize everyday people fairly easily.
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