Maher has transitioned from a liberal groupthink mouthpiece to an independent thinker. On Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," starring himself, he told former Democratic Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and MSNBC's Ali Velshi about the failures of Twitter and how the social media platform "needs a new sheriff." 

"The argument to me is like ... has Twitter failed in setting themselves up in the past as the judge of what can go out there?

"And I would say yes, you have. You failed when you threw The New York Post off of Twitter for talking about Hunter Biden's emails and it turned out that was a real story.

"You failed. When you said we couldn't read whether COVID had come from a lab. You failed. 

"Did you read about this Babylon Bee? ... They got flagged for posting a funny video this is funny to them, okay. 'Sensitive content' Twitter said, in the video, they were making fun of Twitter for being too sensitive. ... And the fact that they [Twitter] flagged this for being insensitive shows their complete lack of self-awareness about what their own problem is -- and if that's where the line is -- you have failed Twiter. You do need a new sheriff."