Jon Stewart is offering Joe Rogan's defense.
In the latest episode of his podcast "The Problem with Jon Stewart," the TV host shares his thoughts about Neil Young and other artists pulling their music from Spotify over Rogan sharing misinformation about COVID-19. took.
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"First of all, I love Neil Young and I love Neil Young's music. But the idea that Spotify was worth $4 billion in value? A mockery of the music streamer's decline in stock market valuation, along with Young's boycott. While flying, they caught me off guard.
Stewart also joked that while Rogan can spread misinformation, music artists such as Taylor Swift refer to Jake Gyllenhaal in their songs.
"She doesn't even have that scarf!" Stewart laughed that going against popular music fans could be worse than being political on social media. "I'm less shocked by Israel-Palestine than I did for the One Direction prank."
On what to do with Rogan, the host offered advice: "Don't leave. Don't leave. Don't censor. Get to work."
He explained that Rogan "is by no means a thinker in my mind", alluding to an episode of Rogan's show in which he mistakenly claimed that the risk of myocarditis in children was more from catching COVID than from COVID vaccines. There are more, and later issued a correction and apologized.
"He's the one person you can connect with," Stewart said.
"There is no doubt that there is serious misinformation that is objective and hateful and everything else, and the credit for operating it goes to the platform running them," he said. "But I think this exaggeration is a mistake for Rogan."
Stewart continued, "He has four hours of conversation. They're expansive, and he can say things that you think are misinformation, and he can provide a platform to people who you think are wrong." , but to tell that something is so serious... I think there are dishonest, bad actors in the world, and identifying them. Much more important to me."