Media on the Joe Rogan Experience
29 fact-checked claims across 14 episodes · Mar 2019 to Jun 2025 · updated Jul 21, 2026
Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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- Joe Rogan (10)
- Elon Musk (5)
- Tim Pool (3)
- Jeremy Corbell (2)
- Tulsi Gabbard (2)
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“the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote an article where they claimed, I went to Iran for a Holocaust deniers conference, and I've never been to Iran.”
Tim Pool claims the Southern Poverty Law Center published an article falsely stating he attended a Holocaust deniers conference in Iran, which he says never happened.
“They removed all his published papers, all of his peer-reviewed, all of his work, all of his papers that are scientific papers. They removed all that from Wiki…”
Rogan claims Wikipedia deleted all of Andrew Huberman's published peer-reviewed scientific papers from his Wikipedia page after Huberman made a comment following an RFK Jr. podcast appearance.
“It's a misnomer, actually, that AATIP was the recipient of the $22 million. It was actually Harry Reid who created a program called AAWSAP. AAWSAP was the sole…”
Corbell claims the New York Times was wrong to report that AATIP received the $22 million UFO program funding, asserting the money actually went to a separate Harry Reid program called AAWSAP.
“Like people that were making a lot of money. And then all of a sudden that money was cut down to 30% of what it used to be. And with no, no clear guidelines.”
Rogan claims some YouTube creators saw their ad revenue cut to 30% of previous levels overnight with no clear guidelines given.
“cited the studies that showed why people choose different professions, why people gravitate towards different activities and different professions based on gen…”
Soh claims the fired Google engineer James Damore's memo cited legitimate studies on gender differences in occupational preferences and was mischaracterized by media as anti-woman.
“The first debate had something like 22 million viewers. The one that we just did, I think, had 6.6 million viewers.”
Gabbard claims the first Democratic primary debate drew about 22 million viewers, while a later debate drew only 6.6 million.
“media has completely lied to you. They said 150 people showed up. Yeah, it's a total fabrication. I have the footage to prove it. We had an event in, I partici…”
Corbell claims media reports that only 150 people showed up to the 'Storm Area 51' related event in Nevada were a complete fabrication, and that over 3,000 people actually attended.
“75% of all television advertisement is pharmaceutical companies which is insane it is and we are one of two countries on earth that allows that the other one i…”
Rogan claims 75% of all television advertising is pharmaceutical company ads, and that the U.S. and New Zealand are the only two countries permitting direct-to-consumer drug advertising.
“which is why I never sued CNN. CNN lied about me over and over and over again. They said I was taking horse dewormer and they altered the color of my face on t…”
Rogan says CNN falsely described his ivermectin use as taking horse dewormer and altered his skin color on air to make him look green.
“Scientists have captured the Earth climate change over the last 485 million years.”
A Washington Post analysis reconstructed Earth's climate over the last 485 million years and shows the present as a relatively cool period.
“But the script was totally flipped and they shut up real quick and turn their sights against Julian Assange after he released Hillary Clinton's emails.”
Mainstream news outlets turned against Julian Assange after WikiLeaks released Hillary Clinton's emails.
“And the cover of Popular Science Magazine in, I think it was 1930, find out what year that cover was. It says, hemp, the new billion dollar crop, because they …”
A magazine ran a feature titled Hemp: The New Billion Dollar Crop tied to the invention of the decorticator machine.
“Well, they were also the ones that said the New York Times said that that bomb landed in the hospital and killed 500 people. And it apparently landed in the pa…”
The New York Times reported an Israeli bomb hit a Gaza hospital killing 500, but it actually landed in the parking lot, killed fewer, and was likely a misfired militant rocket.
“Most of the booksellers wouldn't sell it. Like the independent booksellers, Barnes & Noble, took it out of most of their stores. They wouldn't sell it in most …”
Kennedy claims Barnes & Noble and most independent booksellers pulled or refused to sell his book 'The Real Anthony Fauci' despite it selling a million copies in three months.
“then I looked at the YouTube stats, and 70% of people who listened to YouTube were males”
Peterson claims that 70% of YouTube's audience is male, citing this as an explanation for his own audience skew.
“I think those guys killed 100 million people. So Trump has killed zero people.”
Musk states that Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin collectively killed 100 million people, contrasting this with zero deaths attributable to Trump, to argue media comparisons of Trump to these dictators are absurd.
“I mean, like, the Associated Press, which I call Associated Propaganda. The ap, they ran an international news story saying that Doge fired air traffic control…”
Musk claims the Associated Press falsely reported that DOGE fired air traffic controllers, when in fact the administration was trying to hire more, not fire any.
“the Russia gate hoax the three fucking years They said that he was Putin's toy. Yes, and that Putin had him compromised the steel dossier was completely fabric…”
Rogan claims the Steele dossier was completely fabricated and that the years-long Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a total hoax.
“quarter of the speakers were Jewish like there was like there were people of every race color creed religion at that at that Rally like tell me what about that…”
Musk claims about a quarter of the speakers at the Madison Square Garden Trump rally were Jewish, offering this as proof the event could not be a 'Nazi rally.'
“Trump says he wants to execute Liz Cheney. I'm like, that is utter bullshit.”
Musk claims media reports that Trump wanted to 'execute' Liz Cheney are utter bullshit and that Trump only said she should face combat risk before being a warmonger.
“They literally showed video of the Nazi rally from 1930s and then compared it to the Trump rally now ignoring the fact that Fucking Jimmy Carter spoke there.”
Musk claims MSNBC directly compared video of a 1930s Nazi rally to the 2024 Trump MSG rally while ignoring that Democratic figures like Jimmy Carter had held rallies at the same venue.
“We have 51 former intelligence agents saying that this is Russian disinformation, take it offline, and Twitter complied.”
Rogan states that 51 former intelligence officials declared the Hunter Biden laptop story Russian disinformation and that Twitter complied by taking down the story as a direct result.
“Who's apologized for being incorrect about what did Rachel Maddow ever apologize for telling everybody that if you get the COVID vaccine you're never gonna get…”
Rogan claims Rachel Maddow told viewers the COVID vaccine meant they would never get COVID and that transmission would stop entirely, and that she never apologized despite this being false.
“You know, you hear, television makes people stupider. It's like, no, it makes smart people who could have been even smarter if they would have read Shakespeare…”
Peterson claims television only makes already-smart people relatively 'stupider' than they would have been otherwise, while being a net positive for severely deprived, unattended children, implying no downside from passive screen exposure for disadvantaged kids.
“oh, Kennedy, it was loaded with mistakes. And six years later, Salon, under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, takes it down and says, we found mistake…”
Kennedy claims Salon retracted his 2005 "Deadly Immunity" article under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry despite never identifying any factual errors.
“But Thomson Reuters is tied to Pfizer. They have common corporate ownership and they are the fact checker of Twitter now”
Malone claims Thomson Reuters shares common corporate ownership with Pfizer and, through that link, controls fact-checking on Twitter.
“Gab, a study was done, I talked about this last time where they found five percent of the tweet of the i don't say tweets but the posts on gab or hate speech c…”
Tim Pool claims a study found only about 5% of posts on Gab were hate speech compared to 2.4% on Twitter, characterizing this as a marginal difference.
“what they claimed to the New York Times was that it was a false flag. New York Times said they reviewed internal documents that showed they admitted it was a f…”
Tim Pool claims the New York Times reviewed internal documents proving a named individual's company ran a false flag operation using fake Russian bot accounts during the Roy Moore Senate campaign.
“the New York Times said, we won't run the story. Because the president just said, if you run this story a month before the election, that's a very tight margin…”
Snowden claims President Bush personally warned the New York Times that running the NSA warrantless-wiretapping story before the 2004 election would put 'blood on your hands,' and that this threat is why the paper held the story until December 2005.