Joe Rogan Is Mainstreaming Right-Wing Misinformation

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The “Joe Rogan” experience is off the cuff, unedited, and very often entirely off the rails. Alex Patterson of Media Matters says the podcast is “a bastion of toxic masculinity… that leads listeners further down rightwing rabbit holes,” and notes that Rogan’s “dedicated listeners are mostly young men… listening to all three hours and taking in completely unfounded conspiracy theories without any of the fact-checking that would come for a more traditional journalistic enterprise.” Plus, Samuel Woolley, the author of The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth and the director of the Propaganda Lab at the University of Austin’s Center for Media Engagement, explains why “the right is a lot better than the left at leveraging the internet and leveraging both organic engagement and inorganic engagement to megaphone out their content,” including by using networked propaganda, where “what begins on social media as a quote unquote organic phenomenon, which is oftentimes not organic, then ends up on cable news, then back on social media and so on and so forth until it's really unclear where it came from.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fass, no relationship to Kim Jong-un.
0:04.6	I'm a left-wing pundit and a writer at the Atlantic Envote.
0:08.0	And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:13.7	objective.
0:14.7	And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:18.0	the rails.
0:19.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and funniest people in science
0:23.5	and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.
0:28.0	Our world has been turned upside down and on the new app normal we'll talk about the
0:31.8	people who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.
0:35.6	I often say we have an interesting show today but we really brought it today.
0:39.8	Alex Patterson, senior researcher at Media Matters who's been monitoring Joe Rogan is going
0:44.5	to talk to us about why this is probably the most important story the media is uncovering.
0:48.6	Then we'll talk to Sam Wally who authored the book The Reality Game as a professor at
0:52.6	University of Texas Austin and the head of the Propaganda Research Lab at Engaging News.
0:57.7	We'll talk to us about the unseen hand of rage farms and how it's affecting our politics.
1:02.4	But first let's have some fun.
1:04.7	Andy Levy.
1:05.7	Molly, John Fest.
1:07.7	What world is Kirsten sent in my living in?
1:10.2	I think the short answer is her own.
1:13.0	As we record she is finishing up or just finished up her little speech on the floor where
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