Jesse Eisenberg is finished with “associated” with “problematic” Mark Zuckerberg
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Jesse Eisenberg is finished with “associated” with “problematic” Mark Zuckerberg

Jesse Eisenberg don’t even want to be Facebook -friends with Mark Zuckerberg.

“Social Network” star told BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program Tuesday that just because he played Meta CEO and Facebook founder in a movie, he did not in any way with Zuckerberg and was anxious to distance himself as much as possible from the billionaire.

“I have not followed (Zuckerberg’s) life course, partly because I do not … when I think of myself as associated with someone like that, it is not like I played a great golfer and now people think I am a great golfer. It is this guy who does things that are problematic, ”Eisenberg said. “Removing fact control and security problems, making people already threatened in this world more threatened.”

Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Zuckerberg. In a new interview, the actor depicted, who portrayed the Facebook founder in "The social network," Distance from Zuckerberg.
Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Zuckerberg. In a new interview, the actor, who portrayed the Facebook founder in “The Social Network”, distracts from Zuckerberg.

Last month, Zuckerberg announced that Meta dumped his independent fact control program Because the system had become “too politically biased.”

Instead, he said that Facebook and Instagram would now have to trust “community notes” as on Elon Musk’s X, formerly called Twitter. This means that Zuckerberg has decided to pass the responsibility for checking the accuracy of posts on Facebook and Instagram to their users instead of using independent third parties.

In an accompanying video for the announcement, Zuckerberg explained that it was “time to come back to our roots around free expression.”

During his BBC radio interview, Eisenberg also seemed to express disgust at Zuckerberg for adapting to president Donald Trumpwith participated in Trump’s inauguration and Donate $ 1 million to his inaugural fund through meta.

“I’m worried just like a person reading a newspaper. I don’t think about, “Oh, I played the guy in the movie and therefore.” I’m a human being, ”Eisenberg said. “And you read these things and people have billions of billions of dollars, as more money than any person has ever collected, and who, what do they do with it? They do it to curry benefit with someone who preaches hated things? ”

“So for me, that’s what I think about. But I think of it not as a person who played (him) in a movie, he continued. “I think of what someone who is married to a woman who teaches justice in New York and lives for her students will be a little more difficult this year.”

Eisenberg is currently on a media Blitz thanks to its latest film, last year’s “A real pain.” The film, which he wrote, directed and played in, was nominated for several Oscars. So he has asked many questions about his feelings on Zuckerberg, which he played in Oscar-winning “The Social Network” and technical billionaires in general.

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Last month, during a performance at Bill Maher’s “Realtime”, was Eisenberg asked about his thoughts on “tech bros” – and answered with a question about their own directed at them.

“If you are so rich and powerful, why don’t you just spend your days doing good things for the world?” he asked.

“And so when I look at these as incredibly powerful people, I just think, wait, why don’t you spend your day to help people?” Eisenberg added. “Why are you like being associated with these strange things – things I don’t really understand – and take, you know, privacy problems away, hurt people who already hurt, marginalized people?”