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The hopes many conservatives had for a revitalization of the MAGA youth movement following the death of pundit Charlie Kirk have taken a turn, according to a new profile by New York Magazine, with the space becoming overrun by "darker forces" and "conspiracism."
The piece, published on Wednesday, explores numerous groups and individuals jockeying for influence following Kirk's death, but while his organization, Turning Point USA, has seen a surge in popularity in some parts of the US, the overall youth movement has become "engulfed" in the same "antisemitism and conspiracism" that has taken over much of right-wing politics. While Kirk's death was initially met with an "overwhelming show of unity," it has since "devolved day by day into something more like civil war."
Among those leading the conspiracy charge, author Simon van Zuylen-Wood noted, is Candace Owens, a long-time far-right activist and pundit who emerged as an "assassination truther," suggesting that Kirk's death was part of a large scheme orchestrated in some way by Israel. While this has made her a pariah in some corners of the MAGA movement, she has seen a rise in popularity overall, with her podcast creeping into the Spotify top 10 this past fall.
Speaking with Lesley Lachman, TPUSA chapter president at the University of Mississippi, van Zuylen-Wood said she "jokingly shushed" questions about her Jewish lineage and stressed that she was "staying away from Candace right now." She was also, however, "a conspiracy buff" who had become enmeshed in "a conservative political culture in which the thirst for conspiracism is bottomless."
The piece also relayed the story of another would-be college Republican activist, Auburn University freshman Brilyn Hollyhand, who faced "an ambush" of questioning after bringing his "One Conversation at a Time" show to the University of Mississippi. Attendees grilled him over "not being right wing enough" and seemed critical of his unwillingness to denigrate "immigrants who hoped to enjoy the American Dream by the book," in addition to "illegal" immigrants.
He also faced intense scrutiny for his support of the US-Israel relationship, as the audience at the event supported a complete end to the partnership in pursuit of an "America First agenda." Hollyhand was left "baffled" by the reactions, the piece explained, "as if the whole world had shifted underneath his feet in the few weeks since Kirk’s death."
The piece also details the increasing influence of Nick Fuentes over the MAGA youth movement: an avowed antisemite who has frequently called out everyone from Kirk to Donald Trump for not being right-wing enough. The encroachment of darker strains of conspiracy and antisemitism into the movement, the piece argued, was a mirror of earlier conflicts between TPUSA and Fuentes' supporters.
"The consensus among students I interviewed is that Fuentes is in everybody’s feed and there is no point in denying his influence," van Zuylen-Wood wrote.
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Just weeks after broadcasting Jordan Peterson's bizarre climate views to his 11 million listeners, Joe Rogan hosted another climate change skeptic, Randall Carlson. Rogan has been at the center of climate-related controversies in recent years, and recently activists called on Spotify – which exclusively broadcasts Rogan’s podcast – to take action against his COVID-19 misinformation. Carlson’s main beat is lost civilizations, hidden mathematics, and a unique brand of climate conspiracy and skepticism.
Sierra Club, a national environmental organization, highlighted its concerns about Carlson’s frequent appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience in an article published last September. According to climate journalist and founder of the Critical Frequency podcast network Amy Westervelt:
The Joe Rogan Experience, with its millions of listeners, has hosted Randall Carlson more than once to talk for hours on end about how Earth's natural cycles (and sunspots, volcanoes, etc., etc.) are really to blame for climate change while "the so-called consensus view" on climate is driven by politics. Rather than press him for evidence, Rogan gifted Carlson with the quip "that's the real inconvenient truth."
Carlson has appeared at least six times on the podcast since 2014. In those appearances, he has asserted that
and that 
. During his latest appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Carlson expressed skepticism about sea level rise and stated, “The sun was actually a much more important factor in climate change than had been acknowledged."
despite the tepid assurances of Rogan’s guest, in the last year alone, we’ve seen blistering heat waves that killed hundreds of people in the U.S. and Canada, destructive wildfires, droughts that triggered the first ever water shortage in the country’s largest reservoir, and Hurricane Ida, which pummeled the South and unleashed “catastrophic” rains across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region.
Globally, the flooding that devastated Europe last summer was the most expensive disaster in the continent’s history. Summer flooding in China resulted in the third most expensive disaster in Asian history. 2021 was one of the seven hottest years on record, and “since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one,” according to the World Meteorological Organization.
To make matters more urgent, the window for meaningful climate action is rapidly closing. The warming detailed in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report – and experienced by tens of millions of people in America alone – represents a “code red” for humanity, according to the United Nations. Each degree of additional warming poses increasingly existential risks for humanity in terms of public health, economic well-being, and social cohesion. Staving off climate change’s worst consequences will require rapid decarbonization and an immediate transition to renewable energy. Considering that the cost of inaction far outweighs the cost of action, the time to act is now.
Yet Rogan is providing a massive platform to climate deniers and skeptics during a time when meaningful climate action remains tenuous at best. Hosting these voices also aids the fossil fuel industry’s billion-dollar campaign to erode the public consensus on climate change and thwart basic climate action.
The majority of Americans, and likely many in Rogan's audience, want the government to take action on climate change. His insistence on hosting climate skeptics serves no one, except perhaps fossil fuel executives.
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Rogan's controversial interview with anti-vaccination virologist Dr. Robert Malone caused such an uproar that more than scientists, doctors, and other health professionals signed an open letter to Spotify as a petition for his podcast to be removed from the platform.
While Rogan's spread of misinformation is quite alarming, a new analysis published by NPR's Shannon Bond explains how the controversy surrounding his situation underscores a bigger problem; one that appears to be a bit more difficult to regulate. In the open letter, health professionals and members of the scientific community argue that online platforms like Spotify have enabled right-wing figures who have become adept at spreading misinformation.
"We are in a global health emergency, and streaming platforms like Spotify that provide content to the public have a responsibility not to add to the problem," said Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Public Health.
"Their friends and family were sending it to them as evidence that the vaccines are dangerous and that they shouldn't get it," she said. "It provides a sense of false balance, like there's two sides to the scientific evidence when, really, there is not. The overwhelming evidence is that the vaccines are safe and that they're effective."
Researchers specializing in the study of misinformation have suggested that it was inevitable for podcasts to become a point of contention. Like social media platforms, Bond notes that podcasts give individuals the ability to reach build large audiences. But despite the long reach, podcasts have not faced the type of scrutiny social media platforms have. So, why is that? Podcasts give influencers the ability to spread misinformation by way of audio.
Evelyn Douek, a research fellow for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, explained why podcasts are far more difficult to regulate as it becomes a matter of words compared to audio.
"Wherever you have users generating content, you're going to have all of the same content moderation issues and controversies that you have in any other space," said Douek.
According to Bond, Douek also noted that "it's also harder to ferret out falsehoods and hate speech in podcasts compared with posts written on Facebook and Twitter."
Valerie Wirtschafter, a senior data analyst at the Brookings Institution, also weighed in with a similar perspective noting the distinction of audio and the potential problem it poses in the podcast world. "Audio can be a powerful way to spread misinformation because of all the qualities that make the format so compelling to listeners," said Wirtschafter.
Wirtschafter also stressed the importance of scrutinizing audio in the same manner written social media posts are.
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On the December 31 edition of hisSpotify podcast, Joe Rogan invited scientist and COVID-19 misinformer Robert Malone to promote the upcoming Defeat The Mandates D.C. rally, which aims “to end the vaccine mandates” and other public health measures implemented during the pandemic.
Malone has repeatedly spread misinformation and conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic, including falsely claiming that “it's the unvaccinated that are at risk from the vaccinated.” Rogan has repeatedly spread lies about the coronavirus and vaccines on his Spotify podcast.
The Defeat The Mandates D.C. rally’s sponsors include Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense and The Unity Project, whose leadership board includes a veritable array of COVID-19 misinformers, including Peter McCullough, Paul Alexander, Tess Lawrie, and Pierre Kory.
Notably, Rogan invited Malone back to promote the anti-vaccine rally after the two had already concluded the podcast episode, with Rogan stating, “So, folks, we actually went outside and talked, and Robert realized that he had forgot to tell everybody about this rally.” Malone then shared details of the rally and stated, “Our objective is to end the vaccine mandates. And also, no vaccine passports. No vaccination for healthy children.”
Interestingly, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) entered the podcast episode’s transcript into the Congressional Record but did not include the final section of the transcript when Rogan and Malone promoted the anti-vaccine rally. [vid]
ROGAN (HOST): Thanks for everything. Bye everybody.
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So, folks, we actually went outside and talked, and Robert realized that he had forgot to tell everybody about this rally – and then I picked up Snoop, who’s with me now. So there is a rally, January 23, where is it? You want to give us the details?
ROBERT MALONE: Washington, D.C., between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. So this is the “Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming Rally.” And thanks a lot for letting me put the plug in. The website is www.defeatthemandatesdc.com. So this is not about being anti-vaccines. It's about being anti-mandates, and our hope is that we bring people together. I know that’s one of your core messages. People from every walk of life, every party, every religion, every ethnic background, Democrat, Republican, vaccinated, unvaccinated. A thing that we can agree on is personal liberty and the right of people to make their own choice. And that’s what this rally is about is to resist these mandates of the vaccine, whether you believe in it or don’t believe in it, I hope that you believe in the integrity and freedom of your fellow man and woman to make their own bodily choices.
So this is going to be part of a same-day, worldwide rally for freedom that’s going to come across the entire world.This is in Australia, in Europe, in U.K., and in the United States for the first time. So we ask that you join us. We’re asking – our objective is to end the vaccine mandates. And also, no vaccine passports. No vaccination for healthy children. No to censorship. No to limits on reasonable debate and this censorship and propaganda that we’re constantly bombarded with. We believe in the power of natural immunity. We believe and insist on informed consent. And we insist on allowing doctors and patients making decisions without interference together. So, Joe, thank you for allowing me to correct my grievous error here.
ROGAN: No worries, we realized it.
Rogan’s podcast is broadcast exclusively on Spotify and was the most popular podcast on the platform in 2021 and 2020. As The Washington Post has noted, “With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, Rogan reaches nearly four times as many people as prime-time cable hosts such as Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC.”
Despite Rogan repeatedly espousing misinformation and bigotry to his large audience, Spotify has refused to take any action to quell Rogan’s sexist, racist, and harmful commentary.
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Apple, Google, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify have removed Alex Jones and his Infowars website from their platforms. Apple removed five of Jones’ six podcasts, saying, “Apple does not tolerate hate speech.” Facebook said it removed Jones’s pages because he was “glorifying violence” and “using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants.” Alex Jones regularly spreads far-right-wing conspiracy theories. He’s being sued by the parents of the elementary school children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting for claiming the massacre was a hoax staged by gun control advocates.
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