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Joe Rogan says YouTube search doesn’t show his interview with Trump: here’s what we know
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Joe Rogan says YouTube search doesn’t show his interview with Trump: here’s what we know

Top line

Joe Rogan claims his interview with former President Donald Trump encountered a ‘glitch’ that prevented it from appearing on YouTube’s search function, a glitch Google would have said This is, as some fans claim – without proof – that the video-sharing site intentionally deleted the interview.

Key facts

Rogan tweeted Tuesday his now-important interview faced “a problem finding this episode on YouTube” and uploaded the video in its entirety to X (Rogan did not speculate on the cause of the problem).

Rogan too republished a video by David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of software company 37signals, showing dozens of incorrect videos appearing in his YouTube search and saying that “it would be beyond crazy if they actively tried to remove them.” This must be a problem, right? »

Hansson is one of dozens of X accounts report problems finding the interview or note that YouTube’s search function showed clips of the Trump interview instead of the full video, as some users appear to imply that YouTube intentionally removed it, with the billionaire Elon Musk assignment on X, “YouTube encountered uh… technical difficulties.”

There is no direct evidence that YouTube deliberately did not broadcast the interview, which remains available and appears in search results when Forbes attempts it.

An anonymous spokesperson for Google, parent company of YouTube said Variety on Monday evening said the video was “not appearing prominently” in “some searches on Monday” and the problem had been “resolved,” although it did not specify what caused the problem (the company did not immediately responded to a request for a response). Forbes commentary).

On October 25, Rogan first released the highly anticipated hour-long interview with Trump on YouTube and Spotify.

After it was first posted, Rogan said his team removed the video from YouTube, meaning it was no longer viewable, to correct what Rogan had done. describe as a “glitch” in the upload process on his social media accounts; he later made the episode available, stating on October 25, “there is no problem with YouTube censoring the Trump episode.”

Key context

Rogan’s episode with Trump quickly became one of the most notable episodes in podcast history. It was the first time a former president had appeared on the show and had been in the works for weeks, after Rogan previously said he would never host Trump on the show. For the Trump campaign, the interview was an opportunity to reach a bloc of young men who may be less inclined to vote as part of a strategy to combat the expected strength of Harris’ female supporters. Over the past year, Trump has appeared on dozens of similar podcasts aimed at male audiences, but Rogan’s podcast is the most listened to podcast on Spotify. In the episode, both speak on election fraud (but did not provide details), Trump’s policies as president and the existence of aliens.

Will Vice President Kamala Harris be on the show?

That still seems unlikely, but Rogan said Tuesday he hopes to make it happen. “For the record, the Harris campaign did not give up on doing the podcast,” he wrote, adding that “they offered a meeting for Tuesday,” but he “should have gone to her house” for an interview of only one hour. Harris’ campaign said she was unable to participate in the podcast due to scheduling conflicts.

Large number

37 million. This is the number of views of Rogan’s interview with Trump on YouTube. The podcast, which has been interviewing guests for over a decade, now only has two episodes with more views. by Rogan most viewed episode on YouTube, at 61 million views, is with controversial the character Bob Lazar and the director Jeremy Corbell, two names behind an important documentary on Area 51. His second Most viewed YouTube episodewith 38 million views, is with the famous whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Further reading

ForbesHere are the biggest moments from Trump’s ‘Bro’ podcast tour before Joe Rogan’s appearanceNPRTrump spent 3 hours on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Here’s what he said – and what he didn’t say