Joe Rogan has apologised and deleted a more than 10-minute segment on his podcast about a fake tweet attributed to a real doctor about the Covid vaccine.
The amplification of the fake tweet, which exceeded the character count allowed on the app and has been described as “clearly photoshopped” by critics, prompted a deluge of harassment towards the US doctor.
The tweet falsely attributed to Dr Natalia Solenkova said: “I will never regret the vaccine. Even if it turns out I injected actual poison and have only days to live. My heart and is [sic] was in the right place. I got vaccinated out of love, while anti-vaxxers did everything out of hate. If I have to die because of my love for the world, then so be it. But I will never regret or apologise for it.”
On Wednesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the commentator spoke about the fake tweet, which he described as “insane”.