Elon Musk: Twitter was essentially controlled by a nihilistic, anti-civilizational woke mob.
Joe Rogan: “The government had infiltrated [Twitter]. They were censoring speech, and until you bought it, we really didn't know the extent of it.
They were actively involved in censoring actual real news stories, real data. Real scientists, real professors silenced, expelled, kicked off the platform.
That chart that shows young kids, teenagers identifying as trans and non-binary literally stops dead when you bought Twitter, and starts falling off a cliff when people are allowed to have rational discussions and actually talk about it.”
Elon: “The reason for acquiring Twitter is because it was causing destruction at a civilizational level. I tweeted at the time that it's Wormtongue for the world.
Like Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings, where he would whisper these terrible things to the king so the king would believe things that weren't true. Unfortunately, the woke mob essentially controlled Twitter, and they were pushing a nihilistic, anti-civilizational mind virus to the world.”
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience #2404, October 31, 2025.