Government Funding on the Joe Rogan Experience
2 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · May 2024 · updated Jul 16, 2026
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- Dr. Ben Goertzel (1)
- Joe Rogan (1)
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“this is well known that like most of the technology inside a smartphone was funded by US government, a little by European government, GPS and the batteries and…”
Goertzel claims most smartphone technology, including GPS and batteries, was funded/developed by government (mostly US) rather than private industry, with companies merely scaling it up.
“Open Technology Fund was launched in 2012 as a pilot program of Radio Free Asia, an asset of the US Agency for Global Media, which is funded by US Congress to …”
The Open Technology Fund began in 2012 as a Radio Free Asia pilot under the US Agency for Global Media, which receives over one billion dollars annually from Congress.