John Oliver Flips An Infamous Elon Musk Stunt Back At Him In Scathing X Takedown
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The "Last Week Tonight" host delivered a damning deep dive on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
John Oliver on Sunday devoted a damning segment of “Last Week Tonight” to condemning the transformation of Twitter — now named X — under powerful Trump ally Elon Musk, the world’s richest person.
Oliver acknowledged the social media service wasn’t perfect before Musk’s 2022 takeover and had “helped platform a lot of ugliness,” including what he called “our first shit-poster president” Donald Trump, who relentlessly used Twitter to boost his profile before his first successful run for the White House in 2016.
But, Oliver argued, it is “genuinely worse now.”
Oliver pointed to what he described as botched verification systems that enabled spoof accounts, deep cuts to content moderation and the restoration of previously banned users such as Trump, Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson.
The result, Oliver said, is that the platform has become “a sewer of misinformation” and a breeding ground for hate and disinformation. He suggested people use other platforms, and said he now only posts promotional clips for his show.
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The "Last Week Tonight" host delivered a damning deep dive on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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