[ExI] Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

[John Clark]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 8:58 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


>
>> *>> Those who get their news from a source controlled by the richest man
>> in the world might wanna take a look at this, it's both informative and
>> funny. *
>> *Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI&list=WL&index=22&t=9s>*
>> *)*
>
>
> *> John your criticism of Twitter seems odd, coming from the person who
> started Extropolis because of perceived speech restrictions on
> Extropy-Chat.*
>

*You're right that is exactly why I started Extropolis, but you obviously
haven't watched the video and I doubt you ever will, so how do you know
that I or the video, is criticizing anybody or anything? All I said was
that it was an interesting and amusing video about Twitter. *

*> It is not the task of the medium to filter news sources or evaluate
> sources for truth. *
>

*Is it the task of the richest man in the world, who happens to be the sole
owner of one of the largest new sources on the planet, to order 80
engineers at 2:36 am to come to work immediately and tweak the Twitter
algorithm because a post by Joe Biden got more views than a post by the
richest man in the world made at almost the same Instant? If you want more
details about this you can see it starting at 11 minutes and 40 seconds
into the video, but I doubt you will because TwitterX is your home and that
video is not on TwitterX. *

*> Twitter is not a news source.*


*Then why did you say Twitter is where you get your news?  *

*John K Clark    See what's on my list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*

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