John Oliver Shredded Facebook With a Spoof of the Social Platform's Recent Apology Ad

‘We came here for your data’

John Oliver had some fun with Facebook’s recent ad campaign during Sunday night’s installment of HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.

UPDATE: The clip appears to have been pulled from YouTube due to a copyright violation.

The segment began with the social network’s actual television ad: “We came here for the friends, and we got to know the friends of our friends. Then, something happened. We had to deal with spam, clickbait, fake news and data misuse.

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