Joe Rogan is causing problems for the company that pays him $100 million.
270 doctors, scientists, and professors wrote an open letter to the audio streaming giant demanding that the company create an official policy around misinformation. The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan's popular show, has been a source of misinformation throughout the Pandemic.
A group of scientists, medical professionals, professors, and science communicators have written a letter to the company asking them to take action against the mass-misinformation events that occur on its platform.
JRE is the world's largest and most influential podcasts with an estimated 11 million subscribers. The spread of misinformation on the platform is a responsibility of the company.
In her comments to Rolling Stone, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health named Rogan as a menace to public health.
The letter focuses on Rogan's Dec. 31 episode with Dr. Robert Malone, who claims to be the "inventor" of mRNA vaccine technology. The episode went crazy on social media after Dr. Malone claimed that mass formation psychosis was to blame for the response to the Pandemic.
The experts have rejected the claim of mass psychosis formation.
The letter states that Rogan hosted Dr. Robert Malone in episode #1757. The JRE platform was used by Dr. Malone to promote a number of baseless claims, including a theory that societal leaders have hypnotized the public. Many of the statements have been discredited.
Other examples of Rogan's misinformation are mentioned in the open letter. During an April 2021 episode of the show, Rogan claimed that young, healthy people shouldn't prioritize getting the vaccine and called it crazy to him.
Rogan's fans tried to drown out the criticism by increasing their own praise for the show.
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Rogan has had to deal with controversy before. Rogan's program airs exclusively on the streaming service, and employees of the company concerned with his content want more editorial control over it. The company has removed episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience from its platform due to content issues.
In April of 2021, the company said that it prohibits content on the platform that promotes dangerous false, deceptive, or misleading content about COVID-19 that may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health. Content that violates this standard is removed from the platform.
Rogan's interview with Dr. Malone has been removed from YouTube in accordance with the platform's policies on COVID misinformation. The doctor was suspended from the micro-blogging site due to its own misinformation rules.
The episode is live on the streaming service. The company did not reply to the email.
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