The 'Last Week Tonight' host also criticized FIFA for choosing Qatar to host the World Cup.
“One analysis [found] the use of a racial slur spiking nearly 500 percent in the 12 hours after his deal was finalized, which is pretty shocking,” the host said, “even for a website where a regular trending topic is sometimes just ‘The Jews.’ You’ll log in and see 30,000 people tweeting about ‘The Jews’ on a Tuesday afternoon, and you do not want to click to find out why.”
He shared a clip of an interview Musk did where he said that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in the coming months, while it finds its new footing. One of the things, Oliver noted, was paying for verified checkmarks, which showed “predictable results,” like people impersonating major companies simply because they were able to pay $8 to look official.
“Clearly, things are changing on Twitter right now,” he said. “For instance, the site no longer seems to be adding explanations to trending topics, a feature that previously helped add greater context and combated misinformation.” Oliver concluded his intro segment by saying that Musk clearly doesn’t know what’s going to happen next on the social media platform, now that he’s fired half his staff and is facing several labor lawsuits.
“He’s decimated his staff and degraded his product, and sure, he could try and sell what’s left of Twitter, or it can continue functioning worse than before, as his free for all digital clown town,” the host said.
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