Jesse Eisenberg needs to socially distance himself from Mark Zuckerberg, saying the billionaire tech boss he portrayed in “The Social Network” is “problematic.”
The 36-year-old actor stated he doesn’t comply with Zuckerberg’s “life trajectory” as a result of he doesn’t need something to do with the Fb founder
“I haven’t been following his (Zuckerberg’s) life trajectory, partly because 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 instructed BBC Radio on Tuesday.
“It’s like this guy is doing things that are problematic, taking away fact-checking. Making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.”
In January, Zuckerberg introduced Fb and Instagram’s dad or mum firm Meta shall be scrapping the much-maligned third-party fact-checking system for a group note-based system the place customers can add context to posts, much like that on rival social media community X.
The tech honcho stated the corporate was returning to its roots after admitting the fact-checking become a instrument of censorship and have become “too politically biased,”
“What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas,” he stated, including: “It’s gone too far.”
Eisenberg alluded to Zuckerberg’s about-face in direction of President Donald Trump following the latter’s White Home victory, as a trigger for concern together with his public picture.
“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 stated, “Oh, they’re doing it to curry favor with somebody who’s preaching hate.”
Following the November election, Zuckerberg positioned himself with Trump even asking for some assist together with his enterprise issues.
The 2 met a minimum of twice at Mar-a-Lago earlier than Trump returned to workplace — as soon as in late November and one other in January.
Zuckerberg attended Trump’s inauguration the place he sat alongside fellow tech CEOs Tim Cook dinner of Apple, X’s Elon Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Google’s Sundar Pichai.
Eisenberg stated his drawback with Zuckerberg isn’t as a result of he performed him in a film.
“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,” he added.
Regardless of his spectacular resume and wide selection of performing, the New York native is finest identified for “The Social Network.”
He earned nominations for Greatest Actor through the 2011 award season on the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.
