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Rogan is someone who celebrates himself as being a so-called independent thinker who has both conservative and progressive values, and I think that perfectly illustrates our general media landscapeвЂ™s bend towards right-wing views and over accommodating ring-wing views and not challenging right-wing misinformation. Do you see any parallels between that world and RoganвЂ™s? I know you and Media Matters more broadly cover the wider world of the right, so places like Fox and OAN. HeвЂ™s a darling of the conservative right in the United States. HeвЂ™s celebrated in conservative spaces for it. Just from listening to him every day, heвЂ™s by no means remitting conspiracy theories and false rhetoric on his show. And I think thatвЂ™s emboldened him to continue pushing hate and lies on his podcast. And throughout all of that reporting, at least from my view, he hasnвЂ™t faced any real punishment from Spotify. Since I started reporting on RoganвЂ™s podcast, heвЂ™s broken into mainstream coverage fairly often: first, with his lie about left-wing people starting wildfires in Oregon, and then again really prominently, he would encourage healthy, young people not to get vaccinated. I believe heвЂ™s become more emboldened to push baseless conspiracy theories and right-wing lies over the past year. How have you seen RoganвЂ™s rhetoric change in that time? You said youвЂ™ve been tracking him since 2020.

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Particularly in this new year, and as the pandemic has begun, Rogan has taken a clear lurch to the right and become a serial misinformer when it comes to COVID-19 misinformation, and weвЂ™ve been trying to document and limit the harms that heвЂ™s trying to push into the world. After that, knowing that Joe RoganвЂ™s podcast is one of the most popular - if not the most popular - podcasts in the world, I wanted to track the rhetoric heвЂ™s pushing on his show to help document how harmful it is to our society at large. SheвЂ™s an anti-trans journalist who used to work at The Wall Street Journal, and during that podcast, they compared being trans to joining a cult or cutting yourself through self-harm. My first, obvious question: why are you so interested in Joe Rogan specifically?ДЄlex Paterson, researcher at Media Matters: I started regularly monitoring Joe RoganвЂ™s podcast beginning last year in 2020 when he had Abigail Shrier on to push anti-trans rhetoric. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length. How are all those hours of Rogan listening going? Does Spotify seem to have taken any action? He tells me he listens to the episodes as soon as they come out, on 2X speed, to catch everything Rogan says. I caught up with Paterson the day after the story ran and chatted with him to get a better sense of what heвЂ™s seeing. That work culminated in a story last week called: Joe Rogan Wrapped: A year of COVID-19 misinformation, right-wing myths, and anti-trans rhetoric. So enter Alex Paterson, a researcher at Media Matters whose beat as of the past year or so has included listening to Rogan and reporting back on everything heвЂ™s hearing. Many of us who know this context might be curious to hear what Rogan is really up to on his podcast, only to then see his episodes can span hours and post multiple times per week. The platform keeps getting flack over what its star podcaster says, mostly because itвЂ™s spending so much money to keep him there and specifically courted this. Spotify reportedly paid him $100 million to bring his show to the platform exclusively, which resulted in it distributing a popular but contentious program.

He made his name interviewing major guests and for his off-the-cuff, at times controversial, takes on the world. LetвЂ™s get to it.Д®XCLUSIVE: Meet the reporter dedicated to cataloging Joe RoganвЂ™s bonkers claimsДЄs you all well know, Joe Rogan is the most popular podcaster in the US and, likely, the world.

More, more, more, just in time for the season of giving. WeвЂ™ll also discuss separate - but, in some cases, related - Spotify situations and more вЂњgreenwashingвЂќ in podcast ads. He says the show, for those of us who arenвЂ™t spending our time there, is currently best described as a вЂњcesspool of toxic masculinity that discusses elk hunting, mixed martial arts, anti-trans views, and harmful health information about the coronavirus pandemic.вЂќ For todayвЂ™s Hot Pod, I interviewed the Media Matters researcher who listened to over 350 hours of The Joe Rogan Experience this year and reported back on what weвЂ™re all missing. Back again in your inbox on a Tuesday, in the final weeks before Christmas, New YearвЂ™s, and, for you business folks, the end of the quarter.