Because HBO’s John Oliver waited until last week to kick off the 2025 season of Last Week Tonight, he is still catching up on all the news he missed. On Sunday, Oliver turned his attention to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to ditch its fact-checking partners, calling the decision “self-serving bullshit.” Oliver also tried to dismiss Big Tech censorship concerns, claiming Facebook and Twitter failed to censor the New York Post’s 2020 story about Hunter Biden’s laptop despite them doing precisely that.
After playing a clip of Zuckerberg with Joe Rogan defending his decision, Oliver ranted:
And look, I’m not saying Facebook was doing a perfect job of moderating content until now, we’ve criticized them multiple times before on this show. I’m also not saying they even could’ve done perfectly. It’s been said that ‘Content moderation at…
