Controversies
During the
COVID-19 pandemic, Dore promoted misleading information about the efficacy and safety of vaccines, even though he had been vaccinated anti-parasitic drug
ivermectin was promoted on his program as a treatment for COVID-19 although there is no compelling medical evidence to
In a July 2020 video, Dore erroneously said
Joe Biden had once "hosted a
black face affair with a bunch of rich white people", showing an altered clip that had been circulating on social media since January, which had darkened the face of black singer Jerome Powell.The video received more than 100,000 views in one day and has since been removed from YouTube.
In January 2021, Dore interviewed Zackary Clark, a member of the anti-government, far-right extremist
Boogaloo movement. Clark used the pseudonym "Magnus Panvidya".Dore tweeted that he was "completely floored" to have learned during the course of the interview that Panvidya supported
Black Lives Matter and
LGBTQ rightsand opposed racism, police brutality, war and
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In an opinion piece on
The Daily Beast,
Alexander Reid Ross described Dore's interview as being a "public-relations disaster".<a href=According to Ross, filmmaker Rod Webber told Dore in a subsequent interview that he should "vet [people like Panvidya] more before putting them out on the internet to tons of people, to let them just say what they want to say unchecked."