If you only remember two things about the government pressure campaign to influence Mark Zuckerberg’s content moderation decisions, make it these: Donald Trump directly threatened to throw Zuck in …
  • @[email protected]English
    56•3 months ago

    Rogan is one of the dumbest people on the planet and got famous making people eat blended rats on TV.

    How the hell did we get to a place where we’re looking to him for legitimate journalism?

    • @[email protected]English
      5•3 months ago

      He has never claimed to be a legitimate journalist. He has said repeatedly that you shouldn’t take him too seriously - he’s a cage fight commentator after all.

      • @[email protected]English
        9•3 months ago

        Maybe he should shut his mouth instead of just spewing stupid and obvious lies instead of hiding behind lazy shields like I’m NoT a LeGiTiMaTe JoUrNaLiSt or I’m JuSt AsKiNg QuEsTiOnS?

        I hate how people defend stupid celebs spewing obvious lies like this.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•3 months ago

          …and? We can’t have people having public conversations online then because some might take it too seriously? I don’t see how this is a criticism towards Joe.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 months ago

      He was a first mover on podcasts, and already being a reality TV celebrity he got a lot of big guests early on.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 months ago

      A generation of people used a comedian for news, and now they are mad it’s a different comedian.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•3 months ago

        One of them is an uncritical moron. The other one actually made some salient points on occasion.