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‘Social Network’ star bristles at being related to ‘problematic’ Mark Zuckerberg

‘Social Network’ star bristles at being related to ‘problematic’ Mark Zuckerberg


Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg, who portrayed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg within the 2010 movie, “The Social Network,” is distancing himself from the tech titan, calling Zuckerberg’s latest actions “problematic.”

In an interview with BBC News, Eisenberg reacted to nonetheless being considered for his Zuckerberg position and admitted he’d relatively not be “related” with the Meta CEO.

“I haven’t been following his life trajectory, partly as a result of — after I consider myself as related to any person like that, it’s not like I performed an incredible golfer and now individuals suppose I’m an incredible golfer,” Eisenberg stated. 

“It’s this man that’s doing issues which can be problematic. Taking away fact-checking and security issues, making people who find themselves already threatened on this world extra threatened,” he added.

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Actor Jesse Eisenberg complained about being ‘related’ with Facebook and Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, after portraying the tech titan in 2010’s, “The Social Network.” (Getty Images)

Zuckerberg introduced final month that Meta can be eradicating its third-party fact-checking program and transfer to a “group notes” characteristic, much like X.

“We’re going to get again to our roots and concentrate on decreasing errors, simplifying our insurance policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg stated in a video message. 

Zuckerberg admitted that the third-party fact-checkers, who partnered with Meta after President Donald Trump’s election in 2016, had confirmed to be “too politically biased” and had “destroyed extra belief than they created.”

The transfer spurred outrage from some left-leaning media commentators who known as the adjustments “harmful.”

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced final month that his firm would undertake a brand new fact-checking system much like Community Notes on Elon Musk’s X. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC/Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/ Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Zuckerberg and a number of other different high tech billionaires have cozied as much as the president because the election, marking a significant departure from the left-leaning politics of Silicon Valley.

Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai had been among the many tech leaders in attendance at Trump’s inauguration final month. 

Several main tech corporations like Microsoft, Amazon and Google additionally donated tens of millions collectively to Trump’s inaugural fund.

Eisenberg stated he was involved about how Zuckerberg and different billionaires had been utilizing their cash.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai stand earlier than the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.  (Kenny Holston/The New York Times by way of AP)

“I’m a human being and also you learn this stuff. These individuals have billions upon billions of {dollars}, like more cash than any human particular person has ever amassed, and what are they doing with it?” he requested. 

“Oh, they’re doing it to curry favor with any person who’s preaching hate. That’s what I feel. Not as an individual who performed him in a film. I consider it as any person who’s married to a lady who teaches incapacity justice in New York and lives for her college students are going to get a bit of more durable this 12 months.”

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