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Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan erupted in late October over the alleged censorship of former President Donald Trump’s interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
Jordan accused those who run Google of allegedly censoring a three-hour podcast interview between Rogan and Trump just days before the 2024 election, reported the New York Post. When many people went to search for the show on YouTube, it was buried deep within the platform and did not appear on any trending pages despite hitting almost 40 million views in three days, according to The Hill.
“Americans deserve access to political speech, especially in the closing weeks before an election,” Jordan wrote in a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pinchai in late October. “Given the company’s recent history of censorship, including at the behest of the Biden-Harris Administration, YouTube’s censorship of former President Trump is particularly troubling.”
YouTube Admits The Issue
“For some searches on Monday the original 3-hour interview didn’t appear prominently,” YouTube said in a statement. “Short excerpts uploaded by the Joe Rogan channel appeared, but we know it was frustrating for users looking to find the full video. We’ve worked to resolve this.”
Jordan demanded that YouTube provide a staff briefing about the situation, as well as asking a series of questions about the situation. Within those questions, he asked whether the issue was automated or manual, and whether anyone related to the company was in correspondence with the Biden-Harris administration about it.
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