Actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg has said he doesn’t want to be associated with Mark Zuckerberg and described some of the Meta CEO’s actions as “problematic.”
Eisenberg portrayed Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s The Social Network. He received an Oscar nomination for the role.
Speaking on BBC 4 Tuesday, Eisenberg said he hadn’t been following Zuckerberg’s life trajectory, adding: “I don’t want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that.”
“It’s not like I played a great golfer or something and now people think I’m a great golfer,” Eisenberg said. “It’s like this guy that’s doing things that are problematic, taking away fact-checking and safety concerns, making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.”
Eisenberg added that he was “concerned” by developments at Meta’s and within the wider tech world.
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“These people have billions upon billions of dollars, like more money than any human person has ever amassed and what are they doing with it?” he said. “Oh, they’re doing it to curry favor with somebody who’s preaching hate. That’s what I think… not as like a person who played in a movie. I think of it as somebody who is 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.”
In the run-up to Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, Zuckerberg announced a series of changes to the content moderation practices on Facebook and Instagram, including ending fact-checking. The changes were widely seen as an attempt from Zuckerberg to appeal to Trump who had long criticized Meta’s moderation. Meta also axed its diversity programs and hired Joel Kaplan, a Republican who has been sympathetic to claims that the platform has suppressed conservative voices, as it’s chief global affairs officer.
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