Joe Rogan sticks up for Elon Musk amid allegations of right-wing bias on X: "Conservative voices were always censored"

Joe Rogan lent his support to Elon Musk amid accusations of right-wing bias against the latter and the X platform. Rogan expounded upon how he believes the Musk-owned X has created a more balanced socio-political landscape online.

On JRE's episode #2242 earlier this month (December 2024), Rogan hosted Bert Sorin, an athlete, hunter, and advocate for military veterans' wellness. Among the topics discussed was Musk's acquisition of Twitter in 2022.

Elon Musk, a South Africa-born U.S.-based businessperson, later rebranded Twitter to X. He's often claimed that Twitter had a left-wing bias and censored right-wing voices. Musk has maintained that he's discarded the alleged bias and that people of differing worldviews can coexist on X.

Speaking to Sorin, Joe Rogan alluded that some users on Bluesky, a social media platform considered similar to X, often complain about X's alleged right-wing bias under Elon Musk's leadership:

"Here's my favorite. People keep saying -- I keep seeing this where people that go over to Bluesky, they keep saying, 'What Elon's done is highlight right-wing voices and accentuate right wing, and Twitter is overrun by right-wing now.' No, no, no. No, this is actually representative of the real country, which is 50-50. This is what you never had before because conservative voices were always censored."

"So now, conservative voices and progressive voices coexist. And the progressive voices, who are the babies, don't like it because now they have people that think completely different from them, and they can't stop them. They're used to silence them. You used to be not able to say anything about certain things. You would get kicked off. And now, you could fully express yourself," he added.

The UFC color commentator implied that people from the deemed progressive socio-political community are discovering that the real world entails coexisting even with people one disagrees with. He added that the world isn't a "f**ked up echo chamber," wherein one gets permanently banned/de-platformed for saying something like "a man is never a woman."

Rogan noted that his friend Meghan Murphy was previously banned for life from X for making an assertion deemed transphobic by the company's brass. The MMA personality seemingly reiterated that the deemed far-left attempts to undermine narratives contrary to their doctrines, which he feels is the wrong approach.

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Joe Rogan hailed Elon Musk and Donald Trump during JRE talk with Bert Sorin

Elsewhere on JRE #2242, Joe Rogan and Bert Sorin appeared to concur on how certain sections of the U.S. government allegedly clamped down on freedom of speech and the nation's constitution's First Amendment.

Rogan recalled American entrepreneur Marc Andreessen's assertion about two major developments in America's political dominion. One was Elon Musk buying X in 2022 and the other was ex-POTUS and current President-elect Donald Trump turning his head and surviving an assassination attempt in July 2024.

Implying that his country might've been in trouble without Musk and Trump, who're both expected to ascend to notable positions in the government come January 2025, Joe Rogan said:

"They have already shown that they don't give a f**k about freedom of speech and the First Amendment ... It [Musk buying Twitter] was a game-changer." [2:35:05-minute mark of the podcast]