Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“the Espionage Act that the government uses against whistleblowers, meaning broadly here the sources of journalism, is fairly unique in the legal system in that…”

Snowden claims the Espionage Act functions as a strict liability crime that bars juries from considering a defendant's motive, making it effectively treated as worse than murder in court.

“the only way to have the courts review the legality of the programs is to establish the programs exist. But the programs are classified, so you can't establish…”

Snowden claims disclosing classified surveillance program evidence is an Espionage Act felony punishable by 10 years in prison per count, and that every significant public-interest journalism source has been charged under this same statute since Daniel Ellsberg.

“Tom Drake, who was a senior executive at the NSA, this is a guy who had a lot to lose, was charged under the same law as the Espionage Act. And these guys were…”

Snowden claims NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake, Bill Binney, Kirk Wiebe and Ed Loomis were harassed by the FBI and that Drake, a senior NSA executive, was charged under the Espionage Act during the Bush era for exposing surveillance programs.

“2004, Dermstadt, Germany, I think is where they first fabricated four atoms. It lasted 220 milliseconds. The atoms, it's nothing, right?”

Lazar claims element 115 (moscovium) was first artificially fabricated in 2004 in Darmstadt, Germany, producing four atoms that lasted 220 milliseconds.

“They noticed it on radar 60 seconds after it left Commander Fravor, but it was at his cap point, which is the next point he was destined to go to, 60 miles a…”

Corbell claims radar showed the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac object traveling 60 miles to Commander Fravor's next patrol waypoint within 60 seconds, implying a speed of roughly one mile per second.

“Ted Kaczynski was right. This is something that I think about sometimes when I get really high, that Ted Kaczynski was a part of the Harvard LSD studies.”

Rogan claims Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) was a subject in Harvard's LSD studies (the Murray psychological experiments) while a student there.

“So Admiral Wilson meets with this scientist, and they have this discussion, oddly enough, at special projects at EG&G. And if I remember, the document is from…”

Corbell claims the 'Wilson Memo,' documenting a meeting between Admiral Thomas Wilson and a scientist at EG&G Special Projects about UFO reverse-engineering programs, dates to 2001 and is a real, verified document.

“let's call it iran because i believe that's the the big focus right now with the trump administration iran it's my understanding it's still punishable by death…”

Tim Pool claims that being LGBT is currently punishable by death in Iran.

“So actually, after Milo got chased out of the Berkeley, there was $100,000 in damages.”

Tim Pool claims the 2017 Berkeley riot that forced the cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos's speech caused $100,000 in damages.

“I recently published an article where they looked at 22 high-profile bannings from 2015 and found 21 of them were only on one side of the cultural debate.”

Tim Pool claims he published an article analyzing 22 high-profile social media bannings since 2015 and found 21 of them fell on only one side of the political spectrum.

“there's a guy claiming that the 81 accounts listed on this thing as alt-right have been, are no longer being recommended on YouTube.”

Tim Pool claims a researcher asserted that 81 YouTube channels labeled 'alt-right' by a report stopped being algorithmically recommended on YouTube.

“there's a gigantic suicide rate amongst trans people period it's a 40 it's it's outrageously large now whether that is because of gender dysphoria whether it's…”

Joe Rogan asserts trans people have an outrageously large suicide rate around 40%, without specifying source or timeframe.

“Seventy-five percent of the users of Twitter are outside of the United States.”

Vijaya Gadde claims 75% of Twitter's users are located outside the United States.

“we're seeing people be banned from mastercard from banned from paypal even banned from chase bank because they all hold the same similar ideology to you”

Tim Pool claims multiple conservative figures have had their accounts closed by Mastercard, PayPal, and Chase Bank due to shared ideological alignment with tech platforms' bans.

“We've seen people planting bombs in houston try to blow up a statue we saw someone plant a bomb at a police station in eugene oregon two weeks before that a gu…”

Tim Pool cites a Houston statue bombing attempt, incendiary devices left at a Eugene, Oregon police station, and a shooting where a man fired on an officer two weeks earlier, as examples of rising political violence.

“you were also accused of being biased against conservatives in India recently. There was a report on that, as well as you held up a sign that said something of…”

Tim Pool claims Twitter was accused of anti-conservative bias in India and that a Twitter employee held a sign referencing the Brahmin caste during a controversy.

“When I was first there, there were Russian scientists at S4 that was this was early on in the project so this was before Operation Paperclip became public as w…”

Lazar claims Russian scientists were present working at S4 in the late 1980s, and that this predated public knowledge of Operation Paperclip.

“the Postal Service commissioned three separate studies to analyze the effect of the sponsorship on the team. We believe they made hundreds of millions of dolla…”

Armstrong claims the U.S. Postal Service commissioned three separate studies on the marketing value of its cycling team sponsorship and that those studies show the Postal Service made hundreds of millions of dollars in benefit from it.

“the reason that they weren't prevented is what they call stovepiping, right? There was not enough sharing. They needed to break down the walls and the restrict…”

Snowden claims the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented and that the official explanation ("stovepiping"/inadequate interagency information-sharing) is the reason they weren't stopped.

“does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? MR. No, sir. MR. It does not? MR. Not wittingly. There are cases…”

Snowden claims Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied under oath to Congress (Senator Ron Wyden) in March 2013 by testifying the NSA did not knowingly collect data on millions of Americans, and later admitted it was false.

“we've sort of finished that first phase of litigation and that it'll go to trial maybe a year from now in washington dc”

Armstrong predicts the federal U.S. Postal Service fraud lawsuit against him will go to trial roughly a year from this December 2015 podcast, in Washington D.C.

“Those seven years were, the green jersey was won by Zabel, who admitted to having doped all seven of those years. The polka dot jersey was won by Varenque from…”

Armstrong states that Erik Zabel (green jersey) and Richard Virenque (polka dot jersey) each admitted to doping in all seven years that Armstrong's Tour titles were later stripped, yet their jersey wins were never revoked.

“I mean, if you look at the amount of positives it must be you know less than one percent well if i told you well joe we're all good man it's less than one perc…”

Armstrong claims that USADA's drug-testing positive rate is under one percent, implying this proves the agency is ineffective at catching dopers despite spending tens of millions of dollars a year.

“which is really, I think, bothered a lot of people that, that this person being me forced young impressionable young men to put dangerous substances into their…”

Armstrong denies that he forced younger teammates to dope, calling that characterization from the doping scandal coverage untrue.

“Obama's saying, you know, that's not who we are that's not what we do um and yet within 100 days of him becoming a president uh now he's sitting in that chair…”

Snowden claims candidate Obama campaigned against Bush-era warrantless wiretapping but within 100 days of taking office reversed course and expanded the surveillance programs.

“But I can't take, when I hear that this program or this particular athlete being me was the greatest fraud in the history of sport, you know, I can't. That's j…”

Armstrong disputes the characterization, attributed to USADA's findings, that his doping program was 'the greatest fraud in the history of sport.'

“But I mean, if you go back to the 84 games right here in Los Angeles, that was really the first major exposure you had for transfusions, which the American tea…”

Armstrong claims the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was the first major public exposure of blood transfusion doping, done by the American cycling team and exposed by Rolling Stone.

“It's not, there was, out of all the people that won the Tour de France and all the years that you did it. If you go back to people that either weren't implicat…”

Rogan claims that going back through Tour de France results to find a winner who was never implicated in doping or never tested positive, you'd have to drop down to roughly 18th place.

“So in the office of the presidency over the years, all those presidents you've had, 92% were politicians and 8% were generals. General Eisenhower, General Wash…”

Trump claims that across U.S. history, 92% of presidents were politicians and 8% were generals, citing Eisenhower and Washington as the generals.

“You know, Jimmy Carter was in charge of a commission, you know, that many years ago and they put him and Scoop Jackson and various senators, you know, distingu…”

Trump claims a Jimmy Carter-led bipartisan commission's primary finding was that mail-in ballots cannot be used.

“Eighteen months later, there wasn't one soldier that was ever shot at. And even Biden admitted it in a moment of stupidity, because he shouldn't admit it. His…”

Trump claims that after his direct negotiation with the Taliban's Abdul Ghani Baradar, no U.S. soldier was shot at or killed in Afghanistan for the final 18 months of his presidency.

“The day I left, they flew 28 bombers over the middle of. Of Taiwan. 28 bombers. And it's the apple of his eye.”

Trump claims that on the day he left office, China flew 28 bombers over the middle of Taiwan.

“You know the amazing thing with the machines? So we have the machines, they cost 10 times more. A paper ballot would cost 8%. And they make paper ballots, they…”

Trump claims electronic voting machines cost ten times more than paper ballots, which he says cost only 8% as much.

“$200 billion. And that's a way low number. That's a way low. You know, it's interesting. New York has always been like, you know, sort of like always looking f…”

Trump claims the federal government has spent roughly $200 billion nationally (with New York alone spending $100 billion) on services and benefits for migrants.

“I don't understand why, okay, you have a wall or you have a. You know, I built 570 miles of wall. Everyone said I built a lot of wall.”

Trump claims he built 570 miles of border wall during his presidency.

“And then they approve 58 coal plants for the next, you know, every. They build a coal plant a week.”

Trump claims China approved 58 new coal plants and builds a coal plant every week.

“I said, emmanuel, if you do that, I'm going to put 100% tariff when your wines and champagnes are coming to the United States, and you're going to regret that…”

Trump claims he personally called French President Macron and got France's digital services tax dropped within about two minutes by threatening a 100% tariff on wine and champagne.

“China's way behind us, but they'll catch us within five years.”

Trump claims China is far behind the U.S. in nuclear weapons capability but will catch up within five years.

“Not one person. They spent $42 billion. They could have gotten Starlinks to everybody.”

Trump claims a federal broadband program spent $42 billion and connected zero people.

“Well, McDonald's has no information. No, she has no information. There's nobody. The manager said she never worked there.”

Trump claims McDonald's has no record of Kamala Harris ever working there and that a manager said she never worked there.

“When other countries are allowed to empty their prisons into our country with murderers, we had 13,099 murderers dropped in our country over the last three yea…”

Trump claims 13,099 murderers were released into the United States by other countries emptying their prisons over the prior three years.

“I'm for having countries pay us billions and billions and trillions, even dollars. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. Nobody took in 10 cent…”

Trump claims he personally took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China via tariffs, something no other president ever did.

“How about this? They built the charger stations right in the Midwest. Midwest. They built eight of them. They cost $9 billion. That's like a gas pump. Right. T…”

Trump claims a $9 billion federal EV charging program only built eight charging stations in the Midwest and three of them don't work.

“Jonathan Haidt, he's a psychologist at the New York University Business School.”

Peterson identifies Jonathan Haidt as a psychologist at the NYU Business School.

“our research indicated, research on political correctness indicated that this trait agreeableness is a good predictor of holding politically correct views, and…”

Peterson claims his research found that trait agreeableness and being female are good predictors of holding politically correct views.

“our education system, our education system was designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers because it was set up when rural people were mi…”

Peterson claims the modern education system was deliberately designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers for industrializing cities.

“they pretty much wiped out or raped and froze to death all of their competent farmers. They called them kulaks”

Peterson claims the Soviets wiped out, raped, and froze to death their competent kulak farmers during collectivization.

“if you want to read about how this process works, you can read a book called Ordinary Men by Robert Browning. And Ordinary Men is about... Browning was interes…”

Peterson attributes the book Ordinary Men to an author named Robert Browning, describing the police battalion study.

“if you look at say um you know FEMA like the the agency that was paying for illegal aliens to stay at luxury hotels in New York”

Musk claims FEMA (an agency meant to help Americans in natural disasters) was paying for illegal aliens to stay at luxury hotels in New York, including sending $80 million after Trump ordered it stopped.

“Now it is closed source and for maximum profit. So it's like, I mean, to some degree, I think reality is an irony maximizer.”

Musk claims OpenAI, which he says he founded and named as an open-source nonprofit AI project, has become fully closed-source and profit-maximizing.