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The head of MIT's Media Lab recently said: "If you give everyone a voice, the a**holes will be the loudest." I just love that sentence.

y'all been binging john oliver videos and found that they've gotten increasingly more relevant?

I'm on a John Oliver binge-tour because he is great and I love watching him. Also most topics are still relevant today. greetings from Germany

We need a second episode of this especially for whats happening these days with facebook!!!

“There is a purity and integrity to toilets that Facebook seriously lacks” truer words have never been spoken

Every time someone mentions that John looks like a bird I remember that he's playing Zazu in the new Lion King

"Myanmar, a country you think about so little..." Oof, I don't think we're in danger of that anytime soon, John.

I forgot my password two years ago and as easy as it would be to change it, it's much easier to forget that I even have an account.

Oh dear. No good has come after the words "I get my news from Facebook".

That Gorbachev thing was genius LOL

“I can gather information from Facebook” -that’s backwards. Facebook gathers information from you

"Connecting the world" Me listening during 2020 pandemic: "uh oh."

What's with all the negative sentiment toward _toilets?_ Let's just take a moment to remember what life was like before _toilets_ came along.

"A country you think about so little..." Dammit! It's another country isn't it?! "That's not even a country, it's Gorbachev's birthmark!" I stand corrected.

John Oliver is like The Onion except less theatrical. Years later it is still relevant as ever.

Still don’t have a Facebook account! 42 years old & going strong!

Audience didn't catch that Olsen twin joke.

When multi-billion dollar companies give you things to use for free... You are the product being sold.

The exact same thing is happening in India at the moment. It's scary.

My dad literally believes everything he reads on facebook . He even believes Facebook is the actual internet . I tried to explain but yeah .....

Best “a country you think so little about...” ever.

I lost my shit when someone commented that John Oliver looks like "A distressed bird in a pet shop desperately trying to get your attention." 😂🤣😂🤣 9:25

The good old days when facebook simply helped you to connect with almost forgotten acquaintances instead of being a platform for hate, fake news and trash.

The fact that that Olsen twin joke went laughless is a tragedy

People bullied me for not getting Facebook when I was younger... WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, MOM!

I stopped trusting Oliver's maps over a year ago.

Hi John I deeply appreciate you and your entire writing staff. I wish you and them continued success.

The section from Myanmar aged like fine wine.

Facebook's goal is not to bring people together. Their goal is to keep users on the site for as long as possible, and the easiest way to do that is to prioritize provocative and incendiary comments.

I've only ever reported hate speech or threat of violence twice on Facebook, in both instances the comments were pretty clear and could not be mistaken as sarcasm or comedy, both times Facebook said it didn't violate their terms of use. Facebook is a joke.

Need a show like this for twitter also.

I can not unsee John as a petshop bird hopping in his cage. He is a flipping cockatoo! (and i adore him)

Why this gotta come up when I’m trying to sleep

I miss MySpace. Tom was always there for me.

I just wanted to tell you John that I love you -you make me laugh every time I see your program thank you - you are adorable

It's great watching old episodes and seeing how prescient they were.

14:22 I mean in Zuck's defense he was speaking to Congress. The same group of people that asked questions like "How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?" and "Is Twitter the same as what you do?" Can't blame the guy for really trying to break it down for them.

Deleted facebook in 2012 and I never looked back. Really a great decision.

12:44 He accidentally calls it "Fakesbook". Perfect.

I quit facebook years ago

When you have to flee to Bangladesh, things have gone terribly wrong.

I found this video because someone shared it on facebook.

Sooooo glad I resisted the pressure of friends and family and never, ever, ever, created a Facebook account😅

I was playing a game on my phone, and at 12:25 when he says "it's a bad time to" an ad popped up for a war game saying "OPEN FIRE" 🤣

So a Meme page gets taken down almost instantly BUT wide spread Islamophobia stays prominent on FB for years Cool...cool cool cool

4:10 little tip don't randomly jump from percentages to actual numbers

Eye opening! Very pertinent data. Can't stop binge watching Mr. Oliver's info.

That Gorbachev joke was genious. People that write that shit must bê well rewarded.

'Someone just said they want to murder my family.' "We don't know what you just said, but it sounded great!" Me: *Holding in laughter*

Congrats for the well deserved Emmy Award (Outstanding Variety Talk Series) - I would consider the Academy Awards for outstanding acting :) Hope John and the writers behind this show got a life-time HBO contract. Keep us entertained and informed.

The really sad part with Facebook is that a persons gesture don’t mean anything unless you post it on Facebook. I had a friend that passed and I ran into a old friend in the store & said they thought me and the deceased was friends, I replied yea we are & this person said I didn’t think so cause They didn’t see a post from me on Facebook. No I called & went to see the family ... like a normal ( irl firms would)

Calling Facebook a toilet is a little unfair to toilets. 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣

“I don’t know what any of these words mean but my staff assures me they make sense.” -John Oliver That’s why they had you flossing in RU-vid rewind

This happened 2 years ago in Indonesia: During the governational election of Jakarta, Indonesia, a surge of hate speech and xenophobia posts inflitrated to many of our facebook timeline. Promoting a toxic division between the natives and Chinese Indonesian. Later it was proven that the xenophobic posts were backed up by the opponent political party who were taking an advantage of facebook's flawed system. It was utterly toxic, that caused an actual riot between many ethnicities & religions. This is why facebook needs to fix this issue fast. Especially political parties who are using fake news as a tool to "win". It's almost the presidential election next year, i hope these fake news epidemic will be cured soon before then

Facebook is the home of all of those sentences that used to start with, "My brother-in-law's cousin was there when . . . "

"As It's transitioned to a quasi civilian government..." Burmese Military 2021: How about No?

I was bullied onto Facebook by my family. 10 years wasted on crap. I'm happy to report I'm clean and free of Facebook for 6 months now!

*_Gimme ur data_* ~ The Zucc

"Everyone should be treating everything on their site with extreme skepticism, and see Facebook for what it actually is: a fetid swamp of mis-truths and outright lies, interspersed with the occasional reminder of a dead pet."

I love it. For the past two months, I've been a regular to your shows in youtube. It's fascinating how easily manipulated are we. We need journalism of your kind. Great respect from India.

Somehow, whenever I see the actual Mark Zuckerberg I think of someone that's doing a bad impression of the Jesse Eisenberg performance in The Social Network.

It's the reason I didn't visit Myanmar on my trip through Asia last year. It was all going on at the time, many backpackers were still visiting, despite the reports of genocide. I actively tried persuade people to postpone their trips. It's an awful thing that happened there, but despite all that shit people would still go. If people will stand up against something stupid like a Nike commercial, can we at least all come together when something horrific like this is happening.

3 years later, and more relevant then ever.

Coming back to this after the whistleblower interview...

LOL focusing on butt part 😹👏 I just love the way he says that in his accent

Just two years ago, I was a heavy Facebook user. I primarily used it to communicate with my friends during college, and to read the news. Now, I no longer have Facebook. Google News gets the job done; and as for my friends, I just text them. Get rid of it, and make the world a better place. If you have a group or community page on Facebook, please consider moving them to a newsletter (and/or just start your own site). Your most serious followers will follow you over. Those who don't ... they haven't cared to visit your group/community page since they joined. Don't worry about them.

I can't believe people would say these mean things about John Oli, I appreciate his existence

That "Facebook is a toilet" bit with the teacher should put into a youtube short and shared daily all over Facebook...

The way the guy said "Butt part" was hilarious

I was born in Myanmar, and grew up there, and it saddens me to see the country portrayed like this, because IT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. There's a whole lot of hatred and paranoia in the country, and it uses religion (Buddhism) as a way to persecute people of other religions and ethnicity. If you are of any religion than Buddhism, you're the "other" and are very likely not safe. Hell, they even think of the other sect of Buddhism, Mahayana, as a demonic religion, when there's very few differences between the two sects (Myanmar practices Theravada). This episode is completely accurate in portraying the prevalence of facebook in Myanmar. People may not have any idea how to use google, or enter a URL, but they can use facebook for pretty much everything. Facebook is basically substituted for tinder, yelp, twitter, pornhub and more in that country. And when facebook is the "internet" for the entire country, you better believe any "news" that goes viral is going to be common news for the people there. There's no fact checking, and people accept it as completely legit, and this is a very prevalent way in which hate is riled up there. It's absolutely appalling, and sadly, I don't see it changing anytime soon. The country has been put too backwards by the military dictatorship, and the education system in the country is outdated by 20~40 years depending on the subject. Thanks to LastWeekTonight for creating this episode. Even though I have no attachments to the country, it's nice to know that more people will now be more aware of the atrocities and problems in Myanmar.

Laughed myself to tears at the end, must share this on Facebook!

The description of Oliver as a distressed bird was so on-point. I wonder now if they even animated Zazu in the recent Lion King or if they just filmed Mr. Oliver flailing around while delivering the lines.

Hey distressed bird a little bit of attention over here. Please do a Nicaragua episode man, I promise you will find so much material for a whole season!! Help us out Zazu! Please

Hats off to the Gorbachov joke! You sir trolled us good :D

The only thing I crave to know now is did Reuters get the man a decent webcam?!

I get to see pictures of my kids we posted years ago as babies and it makes me smile. I found out a good friend of mine died and was able to attend his funeral and pay my respects to him and his family. Sure Facebook has it's issues, but thanks to Facebook I'm able to be a part of life and stay connected with those around me without having to be on the phone for hours and hours like my parents did back in the day.

I'm definitely sharing this on Facebook.

They really got that one guy to say "There's only one Olson twin moving back and forth very fast" XD

I stopped twitching two months after closing my facebook account. I'm much better now. Filled my time with things that actually move me forward.

I think this highlights a larger problem of people blindly accepting what's force fed to them, rather than doing research.

I think Zuckerberg is slowly replacing his hoo-man body with android parts.

We deserve this for abandoning MySpace. They had their shit together

I’ve given up on reporting offensive content and comments on FB. Their “community standards” are absolutely bonkers and all over the place.

Love watching john oliver. He is funny and tells it like it is ...

At least the "there is only one twin" part in the fake commercial is true

18:10 "There is only one explanation. Moving back and forward very fast" OLSEN TWINS NOT TWINS CONFIRMED!

I'm calling it, John predicted the Bear or Man problem 5 years before it happened

My favorite part of this was hearing him say privacy with his awesome accent.

The LWT team deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

John Oliver is the most tremendously awesome late-night host we’ve seen from the standpoint of the Emmys.

Every time I watch this clip, I lose MY MIND any time "butt part" comes up.

Coming back to this segment October 2021. I needed a review to remind me to keep my head out of the toilet.

No one uses Facebook anymore. We use INST...!! .. Wait a minute.

Every fb user: *Lies on facebook* Also every fb user: "Facebook said it, so it must be true"

"Is ______ free" is what I ask whenever I hear something is free.

I used to go on FB and think, wow, other people’s lives seem so much happier than mine! I haven’t been on FB in over 3 years and I’ve never been happier, what a waste of time. More time to watch LWT with John!

You don't even need to look out for hate speech in fancy languages. Facebook wouldn't even delete hate speech in English.

Whoever said technology will replace paper has obviously never tried to wipe their butt with an iPad

The last 10 seconds of that guy laughing is just gold.

The Last two minutes are spot on. I think this needs to have a part 2.