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Jesse Eisenberg has distanced himself from Fb co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, saying: “I don’t wish to consider myself as related to someone like that.”
The 41-year-old actor was Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s 2010 movie The Social Community.
Talking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Eisenberg defined that he hadn’t been “following [Zuckerberg’s] life trajectory, partly as a result of I don’t wish to consider myself as related to someone like that.
“It’s not like I performed an incredible golfer, and now folks suppose I’m an incredible golfer. It’s, like, this man who’s doing issues which might be problematic, taking away fact-checking, and [the] security issues. Making people who find themselves already threatened on the planet extra threatened.”
Requested if he’s involved by Zuckerberg’s actions, Eisenberg replied: “I’m involved simply as someone who reads the newspaper. I don’t suppose, like: ‘Oh, I performed the man within the film and due to this fact…’ It’s simply I’m a human being and also you learn these items about individuals who have billions upon billions of {dollars}, more cash than any human particular person has ever amassed, and what are they doing with it? Oh, they’re utilizing it to curry favor with somebody who’s preaching hateful issues.
“That’s what I consider, however not as someone who performed [him] in a film, however simply as somebody who’s married to a lady who teaches incapacity justice in New York and the lives of her college students are going to get just a little tougher this yr.”
Meta, Zuckerberg’s firm that oversees Fb and Instagram, introduced earlier this yr that it’s planning on doing away with fact-checkers.
Two members of Meta’s unbiased Oversight Board, Alan Rusbridger, Unbiased columnist and former editor of The Guardian, and novelist Khaled Mansour, subsequently warned that misinformation will “undermine public belief” and pressured that the affect on the credibility of web sites corresponding to Fb might be “exorbitant” and will result in broad civil disturbance.
Eisenberg mentioned his spouse Anna Strout’s charitable work in a latest interview with The Unbiased, saying: “My spouse comes from a household of activists.
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Strout’s mom Toby Strout ran a home violence shelter, and her brother Anthony Arnove, co-founded a non-profit arts organisation.
“I married into a superb left-wing household, and my spouse has formed each thought I’ve ever had as an grownup,” Eisenberg added. “So I’m a supporter of all social actions that elevate up those that want a elevate.”
