Former President Donald Trump's highly anticipated three-hour interview with Joe Rogan generated controversy among some supporters of the Republican presidential candidate, who have accused YouTube of censoring it.
The latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast was published on Friday and has already racked up 33 million views. It has quickly become one of the most viewed podcast appearances of the 2024 election cycle for either Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris.When the video was initially uploaded to YouTube, it was "unlisted," meaning it could only be accessed through a direct link and wouldn't appear in search results or on the uploader's page.
Rogan took to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday to clarify that it was unlisted due to a technical issue with Spotify."There is no issue with YouTube censoring the trump episode. It was just supposed to go live on both Spotify and YouTube at the same time and there was a glitch in Spotify's upload system and so we delisted the YouTube link until it's fixed. It should be fine now," Rogan wrote.
The video is no longer unlisted. Newsweek reached out to YouTube and Spotify for comment.
Another concern raised by commenters on the YouTube video was that despite being highly viewed, it was not featured on YouTube's Trending page.
I wasn't going to post this as I figured everyone would see it on YouTube anyway, but just in case, here it is.
🚨BREAKING: The mainstream media is trying to censor the Joe Rogan and Donald Trump podcast.
— Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 News (@DonaldTNews) October 26, 2024
Here is the full interview. SHARE so all Americans can see this! 🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/soS1NCsQ5f
