Podcaster Joe Rogan has addressed the controversy over his interview with former President Donald Trump being difficult to find on YouTube, alleging that the issues were “not a mistake.”
Trump’s appearance on the The Joe Rogan Experience drew in millions of views, but users reported issues with the full video not showing up when searching for it on the video platform.
“If you Googled ‘Rogan Trump’ you could only get clips, you couldn’t watch the whole episode, you couldn’t find it. And so we reached out to them a couple of times, and they fixed it, to their credit, so now you can find it,” Rogan said on the latest episode of his podcast.
“There’s no way it was a mistake, that’s too convenient,” Rogan later said, adding that it could have been a “rogue engineer” at YouTube who was responsible.
Although he initially said he was “sure it was a mistake,” he later clarified …