TL;DR: Joe Rogan Experience #1258 featured Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Twitter global lead for legal, policy, and trust, Vijaya Gadde, and independent journalist Tim Pool. The episode was in response to broad criticism of Rogan’s previous Dorsey interview where both men were accused of pumping Cash App without properly disclosing its financial sponsorship of the podcast, along with whitewashing Twitter censorship policies.

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Joe Rogan and Jack Dorsey Attempt Damage Control

Host Joe Rogan began the episode with a disclosure, guest Jack Dorsey’s Cash App is a sponsor of the podcast and of a charity favored by Rogan. This was a key complaint from the cryptocurrency community, as members stressed Dorsey and Rogan were pushing bitcoin core (BTC) and related projects without giving viewers and listeners a chance to better evaluate the show’s content.

Rogan insisted Dorsey’s financial support has little-to-nothing with how the show’s flow proceeds, neither the previous or current, and doubled-down that such would be the case again this second go-around. Episode #1258 was much more confrontational than the previous. #1236, Dorsey’s first appearance and its reaction shook Rogan to his core. The YouTube broadcast was heavily, overwhelmingly downvoted, and led to a brief beef between Rogan, Alex Jones, and members of the crypto ecosystem interested in other projects than BTC. Rogan would later apologize for lapses in the first Dorsey interview.

Jones recently rejoined Rogan to patch things up, making even more news by claiming to have been offer a bribe to shill BTC. And Jones as a subject came up among the four this episode, with Vijaya Gadde, Twitter policy lead, making the case for why Jones was ultimately deplatformed. Rogan laughed at the tweets Gadde read from Jones, while Tim Pool, an independent journalist and critic of Twitter censorship policy, continued to point out how such policy appears to lean politically Left, social justice.

As evidence, Pool cited a Quillette study, It Isn’t Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals, to which Gadde and Dorsey disagreed. The two defended Twitter’s actions while also acknowledging content moderation at scale comes with pitfalls when the user base is hundreds of millions. Rogan and Pool argued about what they believe is a persistent bias regarding Twitter’s assumptions over trans people, racism, and what it deems hate. Crypto Twitter was careful to listen and watch, as the social media platform is arguably the most important in the ecosystem, and talk of rules and how the company operates can mean all the difference in the world.

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