In each episode Rogan talks about all kinds of topics, without any filter.
Joe Rogan is the host of a program called The Joe Rogan Experience, released in 2009 and with 11 million listeners, for which he signed a millionaire and exclusive contract for several years with Spotify.
The presenter is 54 years old, has been married for more than 20 years and has three children. He rose to fame through the years from different points of entertainment: as a comedian, sitcom actor and cage fight commentator for the UFC
“Joe Rogan is one of the most consumed media products on the planet, with the power to shape tastes, politics, medical decisions, a fact well known by legions of men under 40 years of age”, indicates in an analysis of the The New York Times last year entitled Joe Rogan is too successful to be canceled.
The show arrived on Netflix starting September 1, 2021 (sources say that the agreement could be for more than 100 million dollars), it is pointed out in a publication of Infobae.
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In each episode Rogan talks about all kinds of topics, without any filter. In addition, it has had several guests, among them, Elon Musk, who smoked marijuana during the show. Thanks to the contract with Spotify, this podcast was made available to 286 million users of the service. And therein lies the danger.
For example, last year Rogan suggested that healthy young people do not need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, he later stated that he is “not an anti-vaccine person” and should not be considered a medical authority anyway. Nevertheless, his comments drew immediate criticism by the Joe Biden administration and even Prince Harry.
The most recent controversy was unleashed because Rogan interviewed Dr. Robert Malone, an infectious disease specialist who has become a hero in the anti-vaccine community. Malone’s Twitter account has been taken down for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and has falsely suggested that millions of people “They have been hypnotized into believing that vaccines work to prevent serious diseases.”
Given this, 270 medical experts called on Spotify to cancel the show. Doctors, researchers and health professionals who co-signed a letter to the streaming media service expressed concern that the presenter was using the platform to spread questionable medical advice.
“We have detailed content policies and we have removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.” Spotify said in a statement, without referring to Rogan’s podcast or detailing what the content policies are.
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The aforementioned episode also caused Neil Young’s music is removed from Spotify at your request, following the veteran rock star’s outcry for maintaining a podcast that spreads misinformation about COVID. “I realised that couldn’t continue to support Spotify’s life-threatening disinformation for people who love music,” Young said in a statement.
Young added that a lot of Spotify listeners are hearing misleading information about COVID-19. They are young, “impressionable and easy to tilt to the wrong side of the truth”, He said. “These young people believe that Spotify would never present totally false information. Unfortunately they are wrong.”
Rogan’s path
After dropping out of the University of Massachusetts, Rogan turned to stand-up in 1988. He later moved to Los Angeles, where he got a role in the cast of the sitcom NewsRadio, which aired from 1995 to 1999, in which he played a man named Joe, coincidentally also conspiratorial in mind.
He has built his reputation on his shows at the Comedy Store, in which he criticized those who watched the Lakers instead of the UFC, or his sincere belief that man never reached the moon, according to what he recounts The New York Times. He also presented the reality Fear Factor and was famous for fighting over contestants.
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As Forbes described, the comedian “has proven to be the king of new media, one who uses controversy to expand his brand.” (I)
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