"All that's nonsense" - When Joe Rogan dismissed Mark Zuckerberg's 5000 sqft bunker in $260 million Hawaiian home surviving potential nuclear fallout

Joe Rogan once mocked Mark Zuckerberg for constructing a sprawling bunker intended to withstand potential nuclear fallout. Amid ongoing global crises over the past several decades, numerous unconfirmed reports have emerged claiming that high-profile individuals have built nuclear bunkers to protect themselves in the event of a large-scale strike.

Among them is Meta CEO Zuckerberg, who has constructed a 5,000-square-foot fortified nuclear bunker on his multi-million-dollar property located on the remote Hawaiian island of Kauai. However, Rogan believes that such a facility would be ineffective if a real disaster were to occur.

During an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience in July 2024, the famed podcaster discussed Zuckerberg's doomsday bunker with investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen. The podcast guest explained that atomic explosions occur so rapidly that individuals might not even have the time to reach their bunkers.

Rogan acknowledged Jacobsen's reasoning and labeled the billionaire tech mogul's nuclear bunker more as a hurricane shelter:

"Yeah, all that's nonsense. These people think, like, Zuckerberg is building a bunker in Hawaii [and] he's going to survive. He's building a hurricane shelter that might not work... You'd have to know in advance that we're about to launch, and the whole thing is terrifying."

Check out the conversation between Joe Rogan and Annie Jacobsen below (2:45):

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Mark Zuckerberg talks about issues in Facebook’s fact-checking process with Joe Rogan

During his recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg discussed Meta's past fact-checking initiative, explaining that its original goal was to combat misinformation. However, he shared that as time passed, the program's focus became increasingly centered on political fact-checking, which ultimately strayed from the platform's original intentions.

Zuckerberg emphasized that a major aspect of the problem arose from the fact-checking organizations themselves, which strayed from Facebook's original objective:

"I think to some degree it's because some of the people whose job is to do fact-checking have focused much of their industry on political fact-checking, so they've kind of veered in that direction. We kept trying to get it back to what we had originally intended, which is not about judging people's opinions but providing a layer to help fact-check the most extreme claims. It was just never accepted by people broadly. I think people just felt like the fact-checkers were too biased."

Check out Mark Zuckerberg's comments below (5:28):

Earlier this week, Zuckerberg announced that Meta is implementing sweeping policy changes across all of its social media platforms. These updates primarily involve altering the third-party fact-checking system and introducing a community notes feature similar to the one used by its competitor, X.