Rogan has faced widespread backlash for spreading bigotry, medical misinformation, and right-wing falsehoods on his Spotify podcast. Rogan has used his podcast to broadcast conspiracy theories, COVID-19 misinformation, and anti-trans rhetoric to millions of listeners across the globe On February 19, Rogan claimed the crowd at the Capitol included people working within “intelligence agencies” with a “vested interest in this going sideways.” He added that the insurrection was “a tool to sort of label the administration as being even more awful than they already thought it was.”.Rogan has promoted or outright endorsed the conspiracy theory that the January 6 insurrection was a false flag operation at least five times on his Spotify podcast: Rogan claimed there were “clear agent provocateurs in the audience calling for people to go into the Capitol” The select committee held eight hearings in June and July that revealed details about the attack, including Trump’s “ complete dereliction of duty” as a violent mob stormed the Capitol. The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack will have its next and potentially final public hearing on October 13 before the release of a final report. Prominent right-wing figures including Fox host Tucker Carlson and former President Donald Trump have pushed the unsubstantiated claim that Epps was a federal informant seeking to incite the insurrection. These baseless claims originated with the right-wing group Stop Hate, which has ties to the violent far-right group the Proud Boys and the “Stop the Steal” campaign that helped incite the insurrection.Īt the center of the conspiracy theory is Ray Epps - a Trump supporter from Arizona who was a member of the January 6 crowd and was filmed on January 5, 2021, urging Trump supporters to enter the Capitol.
There is no evidence to support the conspiracy theory that the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, was incited by FBI agents. Spotify’s Joe Rogan has repeatedly and baselessly claimed that the January 6 insurrection was fueled in part by FBI agents acting as so-called “agent provocateurs” who were “in the audience calling for people to go into the Capitol.” Rogan promoted this conspiracy theory at least five times in the past year on his Spotify-exclusive podcast, which was the most popular podcast on the platform in 20.
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