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Joe Rogan podcast guest says Israel is behind a Jeffrey Epstein coverup. (And 9/11, too.)

Ian Carroll, a do-your-own-research type with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, said on The Joe Rogan Experience that Epstein was merely an employee of “organized crime rings that work on behalf of the CIA, the Mossad and British intelligence.”

“Jeffrey Epstein was the world’s most evil and prolific sex trafficker that we know of so far — ever,” Carroll said. “And he was clearly a Jewish organization (sic) working on behalf of Israel and other groups.”

The claim recalled an earlier post on X in which Carroll stated, “When I see an Israeli flag I immediately know that they support Jeffrey Epstein and want to rape my children.”

As Carroll went deeper into his Epstein conspiracy theory Wednesday, Rogan did little to challenge him. “Keep going,” he said at one point.

Later, Rogan seemed to agree. “You can talk about this now, post-Oct. 7, post-Gaza,” he said.

Carroll wrote last year that the U.S. was “controlled by an international criminal organization that grew out of the Jewish mob and now hides in modern Zionism behind cries of ‘antisemitism;’” claimed Jews control the media; and said that Israel had manipulated the Holocaust for his own gain.

Carroll’s conspiracy theories are wildly successful on X. One video claiming that Michael Jackson was framed for child sex abuse — by the Jewish media, of course; “the people that own the record companies also own the media publishing businesses,” Carroll said — received 29,000 retweets and garnered 21 million impressions on the platform, which pays creators according to how much engagement they produce.

But he had never been given a platform as mainstream — or a microphone as loud — as the Joe Rogan Experience, which has 14 million subscribers on Spotify alone, more than double any other podcast.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/701866/...cy-theory/