Jesse Eisenberg has been working as an actor for decades. He is arguably best known for essaying the role of Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 biographical drama movie The Social Network. However, in a recent interview, the Sasquatch Sunset star expressed his desire to distance himself from the Meta CEO.
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Eisenberg said during his appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today program that he didn’t “want to think of being associated” with Mark Zuckerberg. Eisenberg’s statement comes after Meta disclosed that it would not be using independent fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram anymore. Instead, the platforms will introduce community notes similar to what is now available on X (formerly Twitter), leaving fact-checking to the users of those sites.
“It’s like this guy is… doing things that are problematic, taking away fact-checking,” Eisenberg explained. “[There are] safety concerns. Making people who are already threatened in the world more threatened.” (via BBC News)
Meta made the announcement in a blog post shared on January 7, 2025. In an accompanying video, Zuckerberg claimed that these fact-checkers were “too politically biased.” Notably, Zuckerberg and other leaders of the tech sector initiated a reach out to U.S. President Donald Trump in the days leading up to his inauguration on January 20, 2025.
During the interview, Eisenberg underscored some of his concerns. “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.”
The Fleishman Is in Trouble actor noted that his perspective on these subjects didn’t come through the person he once portrayed on the big screen but through the work his wife, Anna Strout, did as a disability justice teacher in New York. He added, “Lives for her students are going to get a little harder this year.”
