Jesse Eisenberg doesn’t even wish to be Fb pals with Mark Zuckerberg.
The “Social Network” star advised BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program Tuesday that simply because he performed the Meta CEO and Fb co-founder in a film, he doesn’t ally himself in any means with Zuckerberg — and was wanting to distance himself as a lot as potential from the billionaire.
“I haven’t been following [Zuckerberg’s] life trajectory, partly because I don’t … when I think of myself as associated with somebody like that, it’s not like I played a great golfer and now people think I’m a great golfer. It’s this guy that’s doing things that are problematic,” Eisenberg stated. “Taking away fact-checking and safety concerns, making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.”
Final month, Zuckerberg introduced that Meta was dumping its impartial fact-checking program as a result of the system had develop into “too politically biased.”
As an alternative, he stated Fb and Instagram would now need to depend on “community notes” like on Elon Musk’s X, previously referred to as Twitter. Because of this Zuckerberg has determined to go the duty of fact-checking the accuracy of posts on Fb and Instagram to its customers as a substitute of utilizing impartial third events.
In an accompanying video to the announcement, Zuckerberg declared it was “time to get back to our roots around free expression.”
Throughout his BBC Radio interview, Eisenberg additionally appeared to specific disgust with Zuckerberg for aligning himself with President Donald Trump, having attended Trump’s inauguration and donating $1 million to his inauguration fund by Meta.
“I’m concerned just as a person who reads a newspaper. I don’t think about, ‘Oh, I played the guy in the movie and therefore.’ I’m a human being,” Eisenberg stated. “And you read these things and people have billions upon billions of dollars, like more money than any human person has ever amassed, and like, what are they doing with it? They’re doing it to curry favor with somebody who’s preaching hateful things?”
“So to me, that’s what I think of. But I think of that not as a person who played [him] in a movie,” he continued. “I think of it as somebody who’s married to a woman who teaches disability justice in New York and lives for her students are going to get a little harder this year.”
Eisenberg is presently on a media blitz because of his newest movie, final yr’s “A Real Pain.” The film, which he wrote, directed and starred in, was nominated for a number of Oscars. So, he’s been requested numerous questions on his emotions on Zuckerberg, who he performed within the 2010 Oscar-winning “The Social Network,” and tech billionaires generally.
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Final month, throughout an look on Invoice Maher’s “Real Time,” Eisenberg was requested about his ideas on “tech bros” — and responded with a query of his personal directed at them.
“If you’re so rich and powerful, why are you not just spending your days doing good things for the world?” he requested.
“And so when I watch these like incredibly powerful people, I just think like, wait, why are you not spending your day helping people?” Eisenberg added. “Why are you like getting mired into this weird stuff ― stuff I don’t really understand ― and taking, you know, privacy concerns away, hurting people who are already hurting, marginalized people?”
