In a tense exchange during their marathon podcast conversation released Friday, Joe Rogan delivered a masterclass in speaking truth to power when Mark Zuckerberg attempted to downplay Meta’s role in suppressing COVID treatment information.
The Meta CEO tried to paint the censorship as well-intentioned, claiming:
“I still think it’s good for more people to get the vaccine. I’m not sure in that case how much of it was like a personal political gain that they were going for. I think that they had a kind of goal that they thought was in the interests of the country.”
But Rogan wasn’t having it. He fired back:
“Well, there’s a bunch of problems with that,”
Rogan begins to systematically dismantle Zuckerberg’s defense:
“There’s the emergency use authorization that they needed in order to get this pushed through. And you can’t have that without valid therapeutics…