Former President Donald Trump sat down with podcast host Joe Rogan on Friday for what is now one of Rogan’s most-viewed podcast episodes ever. But good luck finding the full version of the interview on YouTube without some internet sleuthing because YouTube won’t list the full episode in its search results.
Users who search “Joe Rogan Donald Trump,” “Joe Rogan Donald Trump interview,” “Joe Rogan Trump,” or “Rogan Trump full interview” on YouTube are directed to multiple short clips of the interview, reactions to the interview, or random news channels.
The Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis posted a demonstration of the suppression on X.
“There’s no way to search for the full interview that will actually return the full interview. You have to go to Rogan’s page and the list of videos in order to find it,” Davis said in a post on X. “It’s the most watched podcast in history, and it’s impossible to find in Google’s YouTube search.”
YouTube is owned by Google, the search engine giant that has been interfering in the election for months.
Less than three weeks after former President Donald Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt on July 13, Google tried to suppress information about the attack. Users who conducted a cursory search of “assassination attempt on t–” were shown “assassination attempt on Truman” and “assassination attempt on the pope” as the top two autocomplete hits. Users who searched “assassination attempt on” saw 10 autocomplete hits, none of which related
