>> Joe Rogan had to take down a post inadvertently spreading some misinformation about the conflict
in Ukraine here is the post that he originally put up. It's a CNN post
saying intelligence agencies around the world have spotted American actor Steven Seagal
among Russian special forces positioned around the outskirts of Gosta Mel Airport near Kiev,
captured by Russian airborne troops.
To which he put the caption, if I had to guess the plot of this f'd up movie we're living through,
I would say we're about 14 hours from the arrival of the aliens.
So he eventually did take this down because, and I want to be very clear about this Steven Seagal is
not currently fighting for Russia in Ukraine neither is Jackie Chan or Mark de Costa's.
None of the great action stars of our age
are currently fighting over there. We're checking on john Wick,
he might be doing some sort of independent operations. So anyway, Joe Rogan put up a new
post saying I deleted my earlier post about Steven Seagal being in Ukraine because it was parody.
Which isn't surprising, but honestly, it wouldn't be surprising if it was true either.
And Sabrina, I want to ask you, Is he 100% wrong? Like it's a ridiculous parity, but
Steven Seagal kind of crazy, like maybe like everybody falls to misinformation
sometimes is Joe Rogan 100% guilty here in believing that headline?
>> Well, it's just does if he only looked at the screenshot
and that was- >> I just don't really
he did only look at the screenshot. >> Because he'd know if he
looked into it, It ain't true. But- >> No, but the fact that even upon taking
it down that like he kind of somewhat doubled down and was just like, but it could be true.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was true, it's like
that's just the most Joe Rogan thing to do. Even when it's proved that what
you were just talking about was debunked. >> Yeah, I I think it is actually and I will
say not only is it the ultimate joe Rogan thing, it is my preferred joe Rogan thing.
If joe Rogan is going to be spreading misinformation, this feels like fairly
innocuous misinformation and comparison. And stuff about masks or vaccines or God knows
what climate change, who gets to identify as black. I prefer this sort of thing honestly,
because the only victim maybe is Steven Seagal and I've long since stopped caring about that.
So if he's gonna do what it should be about this by the way,
Before the original post was deleted. It garnered over 400,000 likes and 11,000 comments
and he did the right thing. He deleted it and he put up a correction,
however, how many of the people who clicked like on that, we'll see the correction.
Will not come away spreading the idea that steven Seagal is going undercover
doing, doing Duda to Zelinsky or something like that. That's sort of my fear there.
>> Wow, yeah, I I don't think a lot of people are going to see that correction either.
>> Yeah, by the way, the final thing, don't continue.
>> No, I was just gonna say like you said it's the least harmful compared to him spreading
like the vaccine misinformation and not even issuing like as many corrections.
So that was always just agreeing with you. >> Exactly, yeah. Now and I also want this
to serve as just a reminder.
Like search a little bit extra like that's the sort of thing where it would have only
taken about a minute to know for sure. And I get it like there's a lot of stuff that that
hits and it's like, jeez, like what if I told you that there was a grandma telling the Russians if
if those efforts come here, we're gonna blow them up with our molotovs.
Well, that was real. That was real, so is it any crazier? Just check, let's check. Especially if
you are incredibly influential if you have the ability to generate 400,000 like sunset. I mean,
I can make claims about aliens fighting in Kiev ain't gonna hit millions of people before.
I can delete it, that's all I'm saying