John Oliver didn’t maintain again when discussing Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.
The “Final Week Tonight” host stated on Sunday’s present that the social media platform had change into a “complete mess” since Musk took over three weeks in the past.
Oliver identified, “One evaluation [found] the usage of a racial slur spiking almost 500 p.c within the 12 hours after his deal was finalized, which is fairly surprising, even for a web site the place an everyday trending subject is usually simply ‘The Jews’.
“You’ll log in and see 30,000 individuals tweeting about ‘The Jews’ on a Tuesday afternoon, and you do not need to click on to search out out why.”
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He went on: “Clearly, issues are altering on Twitter proper now. For example, the location now not appears to be including explanations to trending subjects, a function that beforehand helped add higher context and combated misinformation.”
Since Musk’s takeover, greater than half the workers have been axed, with many taking to the location to speak about their experiences.
Oliver stated: “He’s decimated his workers and degraded his product, and positive, he might attempt to promote what’s left of Twitter, or it could actually proceed functioning worse than earlier than, as his free-for-all digital clown city.
“And whereas the potential collapse of this web site has been unhappy for the employees and for individuals who have relied on it, there may be undeniably one thing somewhat satisfying a few man who was so determined to be perceived as cool and humorous on the web that he paid $44bn to make it occur, solely to find that he nonetheless by some means couldn’t afford it.”
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The introduction of paid-for verified checkmarks has been among the many speaking factors of Musk’s Twitter reign, together with the likes of Donald Trump and Kanye West being allowed again on to the location once more after beforehand being banned.