There’s no new episode of Last Week Tonight this week, but that doesn’t mean there’s no new John-Oliver-related content: The late-night host used the opportunity to retract a few things he and his staff have gotten wrong in past episodes, and, well, it doesn’t exactly seem like it’s the New Yorker over there, fact-checking-wise:
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