Content creators have a responsibility to conduct research and exercise ethical judgment when choosing to platform controversial figures.

“You can interview whoever the [ __ ] you want as long as you responsibly platform them. It takes a lot of preparation to responsibly platform somebody like Netanyahu or even someone like Nick Fuentes who has all these niche little stories about anti-semitism that >> if you're not studied up on him, ”

Ariel Helwani argues that being a journalist involves balancing the desire to break news with maintaining professional integrity, but he denies ever breaching source confidentiality.

“I would not be sitting here doing this job and getting all the big names that come on my show if I broke trust. Right. So if you tell me, and by the way, we've had conversations. Do I leak it? Do I post screen grabs? Do I say, "Oh, look."”

Podcasters should take active steps to ensure guests do not inadvertently incriminate themselves or create legal issues for themselves during interviews.

“But we take the extra step of ensuring that uh if you come over here, you with us that we going to make sure you don't have no issues when you leave here. You going to leave with the same legal status that you came with.”