John Oliver sounded an alarm about billionaire David Ellison’s hiring of Bari Weiss as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Oliver devoted the bulk of his monologue on Last Week Tonight to Weiss’ career as a former New York Times opinion writer and then founding editor of The Free Press, which Ellison just bought for $150 million.

While he made fun of how Weiss has attempted to reframe her departure from The Times in 2020 as her Jerry Maguire moment “heard ‘round the world,” Oliver reserved more serious, harsher criticism for two stories from The Free Press that did not hold up under actual journalistic scrutiny.

The late-night host pointed to one story this year alleging that malnourished kids in Gaza didn’t die from starvation; the other, a 2023 piece from an alleged whistleblower who

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