Naman Ramachandran Joe Rogan has finally weighed in on the controversy swirling around his Spotify podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” saying, “I’m not trying to promote misinformation.”In a nearly 10-minute long video posted on his Instagram account on Sunday night, Rogan said, “I think there’s a lot of people that have a distorted perception of what I do, maybe based on sound bites or based on headlines of articles that are disparaging.” Defending his choice of Dr.
Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough, both vaccine sceptics, on the podcast, Rogan described them as “very highly credentialed, very intelligent, very accomplished people and they have an opinion that’s different from the mainstream narrative.” “I wanted to hear what their opinion is, I had them on and because of that, those episodes in particular were labeled as being dangerous — they had dangerous misinformation,” Rogan said.
Rogan added that he had a problem with the term “misinformation” because what was considered misinformation a few months ago is now accepted as fact, citing the examples of the inefficacy of cloth masks, and being infected with COVID-19 after vaccination.Spotify has said that they would apply labels on podcasts about COVID-19.
Neil Young removed his music from Spotify following the controversy and Joni Mitchell has also signalled her intention to do so.
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