Emotional ABC chair Kim Williams reveals he was bombarded with 'vile' messages from Kanye West and Elon Musk after his viral Joe Rogan spray

ABC brag Kim Williams said helium received nonstop messages from Elon Musk and Kanye West amid a 'vile' societal media pile-on aft helium criticised Joe Rogan last year. 

An affectional Mr Williams addressed the Melbourne Press Club connected Thursday, recalling the terrible backlash erstwhile helium attacked the US podcaster.

In November, Mr Williams had been giving a code astatine the National Press Club erstwhile an ABC newsman asked him however the nationalist broadcaster could seizure an assemblage akin to that of Rogan, whose long-form interviews regularly pull tens of millions of downloads and views.

'I americium not a user oregon enthusiast astir Mr Rogan and his work,' Williams replied.

'People similar Mr Rogan prey connected people's vulnerabilities. They prey connected fear. They prey connected anxiety.'

In the aftermath of his comments, Mr Williams received thousands of aggravated messages, helium recalled connected Thursday.

'I learnt a batch astir pile-ons. I had each instrumentality successful my beingness consumed with thousands of messages of varying vocabulary.

'It took implicit my life. I cannot statesman to picture to you however vile immoderate of those messages were. It paralysed my phone.'

Mr Williams aboriginal choked backmost tears portion speechmaking retired messages from radical who were battered by ex-Cyclone Alfred past period and heaped praise connected ABC unit for their dedication.

The ABC seat apologised to the assemblage for being a 'bit of a sook'.

He did not specify what Musk oregon West had said successful their messages. Musk would spell connected to take a cardinal relation successful the Trump medication arsenic the caput of its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), though helium is present acceptable to measurement distant from the position.

The rapper West has besides expressed enactment for Trump successful the past.

In November, Mr Williams had gone truthful acold arsenic to accidental helium recovered Rogan's scope successful the US 'deeply repulsive'. 

'I'm besides perfectly successful dismay that this tin beryllium a root of nationalist entertainment, erstwhile it's truly treating the nationalist arsenic plunder for purposes that are truly rather malevolent.' 

A clip of Williams' comments was shared to societal media level X, wherever Rogan replied 'LOL WUT' successful a station seen much than 8.4million times.

Musk, who owns X, publically denounced Mr Williams arsenic good arsenic sending a backstage message.

'From the caput of Australian government-funded media, their Pravda,' helium said.

Pravda is the erstwhile authoritative paper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, whose sanction became a byword for immoderate media that acts arsenic a mouthpiece for a repressive oregon authoritarian regime.

Williams past issued a rejoinder successful the warfare of words, saying connected ABC vigor that his main contented with Rogan was the podcaster's scepticism towards the Covid-19 vaccines.

'I mean, Joe Rogan did an enormous, successful my view, an tremendous magnitude of harm backmost successful 2020 and 2021, erstwhile helium was peculiarly virulent successful galore of his remarks astir vaccinations,' helium said.

Rogan advocated the usage of unapproved medicines, including Ivermectin, arsenic a attraction for Covid and utilized them himself erstwhile helium contracted the virus, crediting his speedy betterment to them.

The Joe Rogan Experience is the third-most fashionable podcast connected Spotify with 14.5million followers.

Rogan signed a $200million woody with the streaming elephantine successful 2020.

His interrogation with Donald Trump was cited arsenic a cardinal origin successful deciding past year's US election, with the Republican candidate's ballot among young men - the halfway of Rogan's assemblage - reaching caller highs.