Joe Rogan Experience #1710 - Cullen Hoback

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 27, 2024

Duration

2h 49m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Cullen Hoback is an investigative filmmaker whose latest doc series "Q: Into The Storm" is now available on HBO Max. He also made "Terms and Conditions May Apply" and "What Lies Upstream".

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Cullen Hoback

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• Joe Rogan

  host

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Cullen Hoback and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #1710 - Cullen Hoback explores QAnon, Free Speech, and Algorithms: Unmasking the Internet’s Dark Theater Joe Rogan and filmmaker Cullen Hoback dissect Hoback’s HBO docuseries *Q: Into the Storm*, using it as a lens to explore QAnon’s origins, spread, and real‑world impact, particularly on January 6th. They trace how anonymous message boards like 4chan/8chan, YouTube “QTubers,” and recommendation algorithms turned a fringe LARP into a mass belief system and political force. The conversation widens into the dangers of opaque algorithms, data harvesting, and privatized censorship by tech platforms acting as de facto speech regulators. Underneath it all is a debate: whether societies should tolerate phenomena like QAnon as the cost of free speech, or empower platforms and governments to intervene—at the risk of deeper polarization and abuse.

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