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Joe Rogan Experience #2303 - Dave Smith & Douglas Murray
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Hundreds of shady companies called data brokers are keeping tabs on every symptom you Google, every treatment you research, and every pre-existing condition they think you might have.
Data brokers do collect and sell health-related browsing data, including symptom searches and treatment research, and this data can reach advertisers and insurers. However, the claim slightly overstates precision — brokers track and infer health data but don't always have complete or accurate pictures — and the word 'hundreds' is plausible but unverified. The broader concern is well-documented.
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Data brokers sell health data to insurance companies who will take any excuse to raise your premiums.
There is documented evidence that data brokers sell health-related data that insurers can use for profiling, but direct evidence that insurers routinely use this data to raise premiums is not firmly established. The claim conflates a real privacy risk with a definitive outcome.
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ExpressVPN works on up to eight devices at the same time.
ExpressVPN's own documentation confirms that a standard subscription supports up to 8 simultaneous device connections (with longer-term plans), consistent with the claim made in the ad.
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Scott Horton wrote a book called 'Provoked' about the history leading up to the war in Ukraine, taking the reader from the collapse of the Soviet Union up to the war
Scott Horton's book 'Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine' (2024) does cover the history from President H.W. Bush's era (post-Soviet collapse) through to the Ukraine war, consistent with the speaker's description.