{"id":1248086,"date":"2022-01-27T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248086"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T21:38:10","slug":"biden-surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-calls-on-big-tech-to-censor-joe-rogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-calls-on-big-tech-to-censor-joe-rogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Calls on Big Tech to Censor Joe Rogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-calls-on-big-tech-to-censor-joe-rogan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248086&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Biden-appointed U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Silicon Valley tech companies have an \u201cimportant role to play\u201d in preventing the spread of alleged coronavirus \u201cmisinformation.\u201d His comments came during an MSNBC interview that specifically mentioned Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>Murthy made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC, in which host&nbsp;Mika Brzezinski asked Murthy what should be done about alleged misinformation from Joe Rogan and social media posts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17440194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/roganjoe2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17440194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/roganjoe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Screenshot\/YouTube\/PowerfulJRE)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you think are the best ways to push back on misinformation about COVID that continues to be aggressively pushed, whether it be Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast or all over Facebook?\u201d asked Brzezinski.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The \u201csurgeon general\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vivek_murthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vivek_murthy<\/a>: \u201cCritical part of how we get through this pandemic\u201d is \u201climiting the spread of misinformation\u201d from shows like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joerogan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xexarsaNDN\">pic.twitter.com\/xexarsaNDN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1485991796257738757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe can have the best science available, we can have the best public health expertise available. It won\u2019t help people if they don\u2019t have access to accurate information,\u201d responded Murthy. \u201cPeople have the right to make their own decisions, but they also have the right to have accurate information to make that decision with.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Biden-appointed health official went on to urge private companies to use their power to limit the spread of alleged misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about companies and individuals recognizing that the only way we get past misinformation is if we are careful about what we say and use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation,\u201d said Murthy.<\/p>\n<p>With an average of 11 million listeners per episode, Joe Rogan is arguably the most popular pundit in the western world. His audience is more than twice that of the most popular cable host on TV, Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson \u2014 who the left has also tried to censor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/2021-ratings-cnn-has-its-2nd-most-watched-year-ever-but-sees-sharp-declines-in-2nd-half\/496930\/#:~:text=Overall%2C%20CNN%20averaged%201%2C078%2C000%20total,the%2024%2Dhour%20in%202021.\">According to Adweek<\/a>, CNN averaged just over a million viewers in its primetime slots in 2021, a fraction of Rogan\u2019s audience. MSNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/2021-ratings-msnbc-posts-losses-but-remains-2nd-most-watched-network-on-all-of-basic-cable\/496932\/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20MSNBC%20averaged%201.53,in%20the%2024%2Dhour%20daypart.\">averaged 1.53 million<\/a>, also far behind the popular podcaster.<\/p>\n<p>The 1960s-era musician and leftist Neil Young recently demanded that Spotify blacklist Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast or lose access to Young\u2019s music. Spotify chose to back the most popular podcaster in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/26\/spotify-to-remove-neil-young-music-after-he-demanded-they-cancel-joe-rogan\/\">removing Young\u2019s music from their platform instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify stressed, however, that the platform has \u201cdetailed content policies in place and we\u2019ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID since the start of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden-appointed U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Silicon Valley tech companies have an \u201cimportant role to play\u201d in preventing the spread of alleged coronavirus \u201cmisinformation.\u201d His comments came during an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}