Jimmy O. Yang on the Joe Rogan Experience #1490, fact-checked

What the evidence shows: On May 13, 2020, the Senate voted on S.Amdt. 1583 (Wyden-Daines), which would have required a warrant for government access to Americans' internet browsing and search history under FISA. The amendment needed 60 votes and received 59, failing 59-37. Senate roll call records show four senators did not vote: Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Patty Murray (D-WA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Ben Sasse (R-NE); any one of them showing up could theoretically have changed the outcome. Contemporaneous reporting (Slate, citing an aide's confirmation to Politico) found that Murray would also have supported the amendment had she been present, making her absence equally decisive. Singling out Sanders as the reason the measure failed, as Rogan does, is misleading: it omits that Murray's absence was just as consequential and that two other senators (Alexander and Sasse) were also not voting, with no public confirmation that Sanders alone determined the result.

What the evidence shows: Rogan is correct that tear gas (a riot control agent) is banned for military use in armed conflict while remaining legal for domestic police use on crowds, but he misattributes this rule to the Geneva Convention. The actual legal source is the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which entered into force in 1997 and has 193 state parties including the United States: Article I obligates states "not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare," while a separate clause explicitly exempts "law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes." The Geneva Convention and its protocols deal with the treatment of combatants and civilians in war and are not the treaty governing chemical or riot-control agent use; the CWC is a distinct, later treaty negotiated specifically to address chemical weapons. Fact-checkers who examined the underlying claim (the military/police disparity itself) have rated it true, since the CWC's carve-out for domestic law enforcement is deliberate and explicit in the treaty text. The disparity Rogan describes is real and well-documented, but the specific legal citation he gives is incorrect.

What the evidence shows: Rogan referenced a CDC report on unsafe cleaning practices adopted to prevent COVID-19, describing it as a survey of "a couple thousand people" that found roughly 4% admitted to gargling or washing with bleach. The actual CDC study, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in June 2020, surveyed 502 U.S. adults, not a couple thousand. The 4% figure itself is accurate: the survey found 4% of respondents reported drinking or gargling diluted bleach solutions with the intent of preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, part of a broader finding that 39% engaged in at least one non-recommended high-risk practice, such as applying bleach to food, applying cleaning products to skin, or inhaling disinfectant vapors. The claim is largely accurate on the key statistic but overstates the survey's sample size by roughly four to fivefold.

What the evidence shows: Multiple analyses of dating-app data, most notably OkCupid's own published match and response-rate statistics, have found that Asian men and Black women tend to receive fewer messages, replies, and matches than other race-gender combinations. NPR's reporting on this research confirms that Asian men and Black women report a tougher time finding matches on dating apps, consistent with the core pattern Yang describes. Exact rankings and magnitude vary by study, platform, and year, and Yang misattributes the research to "Plenty of Fish" when the most widely cited data source is OkCupid, but the underlying claim, that research shows Asian men and Black women face comparatively lower match rates, is supported by the evidence. Overall status: largely accurate on the core pattern, with a minor sourcing error.