What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem

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[–]Chipit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh look, it's the pro-regime upper class media punching down and lecturing the poors. How unusual.

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Yeppers - it's the pro-regime upper class media paying Rogan 100 million+, who is punching down and lecturing the poors.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Those media who are punching down aren't Spotify. In fact, the staff at Spotify are very heavily pro censorship and would like nothing better than to banish Rogan from the internet.

The upper class media does indeed lecture the poors on what's best for them. And what's best for them is not to listen to Rogan but MSNBC and CNN. The pedophile networks.

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Wirtschafter says as more people become aware of how misinformation spreads online, audio deserves the same scrutiny as social media.

She has studied how the "Big Lie" that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump spread on political podcasts in the lead-up to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. She found that half the episodes of the most popular shows released between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, contained misleading or false claims about voter fraud and election integrity.

"We're not talking about fringe ideas," she said. "These are the most popular podcasts in the United States."

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nice try, but people are starting to wake up to reality, and nothing you can do will stop that.

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Depends on who you think those people are. There's a very old tradition of motivating a minority of voters to think that they can overturn the (democratic) approaches of the majority. By normalizing lies and misleading discourses, Trump, Rogan, and others have created an alternate universe for voters who'd prefer to avoid reality, and instead believe in the baseless claims of con men. They should be called what they are: traitors.