Former President Donald Trump sat down with podcast host Joe Rogan on Friday for what is now one of Rogan’s most-viewed podcast episodes ever. But good luck finding the full version of the interview on YouTube without some internet sleuthing because YouTube won’t list the full episode in its search results.
Users who search “Joe Rogan Donald Trump,” “Joe Rogan Donald Trump interview,” “Joe Rogan Trump,” or “Rogan Trump full interview” on YouTube are directed to multiple short clips of the interview, reactions to the interview, or random news channels.
The Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis posted a demonstration of the suppression on X.
“There’s no way to search for the full interview that will actually return the full interview. You have to go to Rogan’s page and the list of videos in order to find it,” Davis said in a post on X. “It’s the most watched podcast in history, and it’s impossible to find in Google’s YouTube search.”
YouTube is owned by Google, the search engine giant that has been interfering in the election for months.
Less than three weeks after former President Donald Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt on July 13, Google tried to suppress information about the attack. Users who conducted a cursory search of “assassination attempt on t–” were shown “assassination attempt on Truman” and “assassination attempt on the pope” as the top two autocomplete hits. Users who searched “assassination attempt on” saw 10 autocomplete hits, none of which related to Trump’s assassination attempt.
As my colleague Shawn Fleetwood reported last month, users searching for information on how to register to vote were directed by Google to Democracy Works. But Democracy Works, which bills itself as “non-partisan,” is bankrolled by “prominent left-of-center private foundations, such as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,” according to InfluenceWatch. Democracy Works has an elections guide that includes a section stating elections are secure and votes are protected. But both Georgia and Iowa recently announced, for example, that they found several noncitizens who cast ballots in previous elections — and noncitizen voting is illegal.
Google’s blatant bias offers an explanation for why YouTube would suppress the search results for Rogan’s interview. Trump spent three hours with Rogan easily and competently conversing about topics that actually matter to American voters, like voter ID laws, Trump’s propositions to eliminate the income tax and make life more affordable, and foreign policy.
While Vice President Kamala Harris struggles with an authenticity and policy problem, Trump not only dished out policy initiatives but shared insight into his personal life while at the White House, including his initial reaction to seeing the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House when he first arrived there in 2017. The former president even shared his desire to be a “whale psychiatrist.”
Hard for Harris to compete with that — unless she can count on her Big Tech friends to do her competing for her.
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