Back in͏ 2022͏͏, when Spac͏eX ͏an͏d T͏esla CEO Elon Musk a͏nno͏unc͏ed pla͏͏ns to ac͏qu͏ire Twitter, Joe Rogan wa͏s e͏csta͏ti͏c about the ne͏w͏s,͏ marking the beginning of͏ ͏a new ͏”b͏r͏oman͏ce” betw͏een the pod͏caster and͏ t͏he billionaire. Fast fo͏rwar͏d to ͏2͏0͏24͏, two years a͏ft͏er Musk’s $44 bi͏llion͏ take͏over of T͏w͏itter͏ (now X͏)͏, Ro͏gan con͏s͏iders it t͏he s͏͏in͏gle ͏most important m͏o͏ve o͏n the͏ inter͏net by͏ Mu͏sk.

While having a conversation with Elon Musk on ‘JRE #2223″, Joe Rogan, who endorsed the new President Donald Trump just days before the election, highlighted that his guest’s takeover of Twitter from Jack Dorsey was one of the most important takeovers for the netizens. The 57-year-old podcaster emphasized, “If it wasn’t for you buying that and changing Twitter, I don’t think we would be where we are at right now. I think it was a pivotal moment. I think, historically, when people look back at it, it’s gonna be a pivotal moment in this very bizarre fight for the freedom moment,” said Rogan.

Elon Musk commented that this move was a drastic measure needed to safeguard both national interests and the First Amendment. “Yeah, I mean, at the time, I said this is existential for the United States, and it’s existential to democracy because if you don’t have freedom of speech, you don’t have democracy. So, if people cannot have freedom of speech, people cannot be free,” said Elon Musk.

He further added, “If they are just fed propaganda, and if there’s no freedom of speech, democracy is an illusion. So, freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy. That’s why freedom of speech is the First Amendment. Once you lose freedom of speech, you lose democracy. Game over. That’s why I owned Twitter.” The Tech-Mogul acquired the social media giant when the company was going through some legal hot waters.

Cons͏ervatives and Republican͏s ͏supported the takeover͏ of the entity, while͏ many others took an opposing stance. However, X’s͏ n͏ew Communit͏y Not͏e͏s update has dis͏mis͏sed a͏ll claims.͏ Interestin͏gly, Communi͏t͏y Note͏s even fac͏t-͏checks Elo͏n Musk himself.͏

Elon Musk confesses about community notes with Joe Rogan

Down in the same conversation, Joe Rogan initiated the discussion about the Community Notes feature of X which Elon Musk reintroduced in 2023 after taking control over Twitter.  The multi-million dollar podcaster emphasized that notes were one of the most important features introduced by Elon Musk, “Yes, Community Notes are awesome,” said Rogan.

He further added, “Community Notes, it’s the best! It’s incredible because everybody gets checked.” Musk reiterated his own experience of getting fact-checked by the open-source feature that doesn’t spare anyone – “Yes, including me. With Community Notes, all the software is open source, so you can recreate any given notes independently.”

The tech mogul further emphasized that some of the political figures asked him to change the notes guidelines but he never surrendered in front of them, “Absolute transparency in every way. Sometimes I get asked, ‘Can you remove a note?’ – mostly by the left, but sometimes by the right. I’m like, I don’t even remove the notes on my own account! Nothing! And by the way, everything is totally open, so if I did that, it would stick out immediately, like a sore thumb. It’s not going to be subtle.”

Community notes have been beneficial for the United States presidential elections as the amount of fake news that has been curbed by the notes is in the thousands. However, according to certain reports, the crowd-sourced community notes failed to curb misinformation specifically in the US elections. CCDH found that 74% of misleading posts lacked accurate corrective notes. 209 misleading posts gained 2.2 billion views without proper notes. It might all be in the rearview mirror after Trump’s historic win in the elections. Regardless, what’s your take on this? State your thoughts in the comments below.