Joe Rogan Experience #1556 - Glenn Greenwald

Former attorney turned award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald is a co-founder of online news site The Intercept, and the author of several books, the most recent of which is No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

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Oct 28, 20203h 5mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: October 28, 2020
Duration: 3h 5m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Former attorney turned award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald is a co-founder of online news site The Intercept, and the author of several books, the most recent of which is No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Glenn Greenwald and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #1556 - Glenn Greenwald explores glenn Greenwald, Joe Rogan Expose Surveillance, Censorship, Media Decay, Fear Joe Rogan and Glenn Greenwald discuss Greenwald’s life in Brazil, his reporting on Edward Snowden and Brazilian politics, and the personal risk and pressure that come with high‑stakes journalism. They explore how U.S. mass surveillance inverted democracy’s basic bargain—government secrecy versus citizen privacy—and how whistleblowers like Snowden and Assange are punished while lawbreaking officials are rewarded. A major portion of the conversation critiques U.S. media, Big Tech censorship, and the cultural forces driving self‑censorship, polarization, and the collapse of trust in institutions. They end by reflecting on free speech, the dangers of ideological conformity, the psychological effects of fame and online mobbing, and the importance of independent, long‑form conversation as a path forward.

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