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 of Musk on The Joe Rogan Experience by declaring, “He changed Twitter’s name to X, announced an ‘extremely hardcore cultural reset,” and by his count, said he’d cut about 80 percent of Twitter’s staff. And to hear Elon tell it, he did this to protect free speech, and correct for what many conservatives considered a left-wing bias. In fact, as far as he was concerned, nothing less than the fate of the world was at stake.”
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