US EditionJohn Oliver Flips An Infamous Elon Musk Stunt Back At Him In Scathing X Takedown
John Oliver criticized X's flawed verification, major moderation cuts, and reinstatement of banned accounts, calling it a hub for misinformation and hate since Elon Musk's 2022 takeover.
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Oliver Mourns How Musk Has Made X 'Much Darker'
Oliver Mourns How Musk Has Made X 'Much Darker' For some reason, HBO’s John Oliver decided that Elon Musk and his transformation of Twitter/X would make for golden comedic material for his main topic on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. As Oliver tells it, the site has gotten “much darker” since Musk took over, but any reference to the prior problems or his native Britain’s creepy solutions was left unmentioned. Oliver introduced an October 2025 clip…
John Oliver gives a brutal summary of the current state of Elon Musk's X
John Oliver has given his opinion on the current state of X (formerly Twitter) — and as you can probably imagine, he doesn't pull any punches.In the Last Week Tonight episode above, the host summarises the many issues the platform has faced since Elon Musk took over — from changes to the verification system to users being fed right-wing content and misinformation."The fact is, a massive media platform has been shaped in the image of its poisonou…
John Oliver Breaks Down How Twitter Got 'Worse Than Useless'
The decline of the social media platform Twitter/X has been obvious to anyone who used the app before and after Elon Musk purchased it in 2022. These days, a scroll through X means being subjected to a ton of right-wing misinformation or, likely, some AI-generated CSAM. That alone is enough reason to leave the site for good, but there are plenty who still use it and, as John Oliver explained on this week’s Last Week Tonight, many of those people…
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