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Liberals have apparently suffered a collective meltdown over Joe Rogan.
Rogan, who runs the most popular podcast show in the country with an average of 11 million listeners per episode, is accuse of spreading coronavirus “misinformation.” Numerous left-wing activists are attempting to boycott Spotify in an effort to silence him.
In response, Rogan quickly fired back by noting how “many of the things that we thought of as ‘misinformation’ just a short while ago are now accepted as fact.”
He continued, “Like, for instance, eight months ago, if you said, ‘If you get vaccinated, you can still catch COVID and you could still spread COVID,’ you’d be removed from social media.”
“They would ban you from certain platforms. Now, that’s accepted as fact,” he explained.
Rogan explained further, “If you said, ‘I don’t think cloth masks work,’ you would be banned from social media.”
“Now, that’s openly and repeatedly stated on CNN,” he added. “If you said, ‘I think it’s possible that COVID-19 came from a lab,’ you’d be banned from many social media platforms. Now, that’s on the cover of Newsweek.”
“I think there’s a lot of people that have a distorted perception of what I do, maybe based on sound bites or based on headlines of articles that are disparaging,” Rogan continued. “The podcast has been accused of spreading ‘dangerous misinformation,’ specifically about two episodes — a little bit about some other ones — but specifically about two. One with Dr. Peter McCullough and one with Dr. Robert Malone.”
“Dr. Peter McCullough is a cardiologist, and he is the most published physician in his field in history. Dr. Robert Malone owns nine patents on the creation of mRNA vaccine technology, and is at least partially responsible for the creation of the technology that led to mRNA vaccines.”
“Both these people are very highly credentialed, very intelligent, very accomplished people, and they have an opinion that is different from the mainstream narrative. I wanted to hear what their opinion is. I had them on, and because of that — those episodes in particular — those episodes were labeled as being ‘dangerous,’ they had “dangerous misinformation” in them.”
In response to liberal outrage and numerous boycotts, Spotify announced that it will be making some changes. The platform will begin attaching a ridiculous warning label to content that is triggering liberals.
There will be a “content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19.” The platform is also creating a “coronavirus information hub.” Spotify will also begin “testing” new ways about how they can “raise awareness around what’s acceptable” and “help creators understand their accountability.” You can read more about those changes here.
Rogan, who hosts the country’s most popular podcast, has responded that he agrees with these changes. He also said “moving forward he thinks he could do a better job of having more experts come on his show with different opinions.”
Rogan currently averages 11 million listeners per episode and reaches far more people than networks like CNN and MSNBC combined.
CNN only recorded over a million viewers in its primetime slots in 2021 while MSNBC averaged 1.53 million.
