{"id":2296849,"date":"2026-02-24T04:27:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296849"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:27:49","slug":"john-oliver-flips-an-infamous-elon-musk-stunt-back-at-him-in-scathing-x-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-oliver-flips-an-infamous-elon-musk-stunt-back-at-him-in-scathing-x-takedown\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Flips An Infamous Elon Musk Stunt Back At Him In Scathing X Takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>John Oliver on Sunday devoted a damning segment of \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d to condemning the transformation of Twitter \u2014 now named X \u2014 under powerful Trump ally Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Oliver acknowledged the social media service wasn\u2019t perfect before Musk\u2019s 2022 takeover and had \u201chelped platform a lot of ugliness,\u201d including what he called \u201cour first shit-poster president\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, who relentlessly used Twitter to boost his profile before his first successful run for the White House in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But, Oliver argued, it is \u201cgenuinely worse now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The result, Oliver said, is that the platform has become \u201ca sewer of misinformation\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At one point, Oliver noted how Musk arrived at Twitter HQ on his first day carrying a sink and posted: \u201cLet thank sink in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It was \u201ca joke so funny, I\u2019m still laughing right now,\u201d he sarcastically swiped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At the end of the show, Oliver returned to the theme when he said \u201cthe Twitter that was fun and occasionally useful is just well and truly gone, and collectively, while it might be sad, it might be past time for all of us, too, if I may borrow a truly poisoned phrase, to \u2018let that sink in.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He then held up a sink to the cheering audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver on Sunday devoted a damning segment of \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d to condemning the transformation of Twitter \u2014 now named X \u2014 under powerful Trump ally Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest person. Oliver acknowledged the social media service wasn\u2019t perfect before Musk\u2019s 2022 takeover and had \u201chelped platform a lot of ugliness,\u201d including what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2296850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,43585,310365,309513],"class_list":["post-2296849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-john-oliver","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/John-Oliver-Flips-An-Infamous-Elon-Musk-Stunt-Back-At.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296851,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296849\/revisions\/2296851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}