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John Oliver Rips HBO ‘Business Daddy’ AT&T Over OAN Funding: ‘You Make the World Worse’ (Video)

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his criticisms of AT&T this week -- his HBO show's own parent company -- after the recent report that the far-right One America News Network is primarily funded by the telecom giant.

On Wednesday, Reuters reporters that OANN — which routinely broadcasts conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the 2020 election to its conservative audience — was actually an idea from AT&T executives, who, according to testimony reviewed by Reuters, asked now-CEO Robert Herring Sr.

to make a conservative network to compete with Fox News in 2013. "Yup, turns out AT&T has been up to some s---," Oliver said.

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