Jesse Eisenberg Wants to Distance Himself From Mark Zuckerberg Due to ‘Problematic’ Meta Policies

Jesse Eisenberg seemingly wants to distance himself from Mark Zuckerberg.

In a recent interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today program, the 41-year-old actor, who earned an Oscar nomination for playing the Facebook co-founder in the 2010 film The Social Network, implied he wants to put some distance between himself and the Meta CEO.

“I haven't been following his life trajectory, partly because I don't want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that,” Eisenberg told Today host Emma Barnett in the clip seen below.

“It's not like I played a great golfer or something and now people think I'm a great golfer. It's like this guy that's doing … things that are problematic. Taking away the fact checking and safety concerns, making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened,” he continued.

“I'm concerned just as a person who reads a newspaper,” he added. “I don't think about, ‘Oh, I played the guy in the movie’ … I'm a human being and you read these things, and these people have like billions upon billions of dollars, like more money than, you know, any human person has ever amassed, and what are they doing with it?”

Eisenberg suggested that said billionaires are doing it to “favor” someone preaching “hateful” rhetoric.

“But I think of that not as like a person who played [that role] in a movie,” he clarified. “I think of it as just somebody who's married to a woman who teaches disability justice in New York and lives for her students are gonna get a little harder.”

Zuckerberg, 40, announced on Jan. 7 that Meta would replace its fact-checking systems on Facebook and Instagram with a “community notes” model similar to Elon Musk’s X, citing concerns about “bias” and “censorship.”

Following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, Zuckerberg dined with him at Mar-a-Lago, attended his inauguration on Jan. 20, and contributed $1 million to his inaugural fund alongside other tech companies, per NPR.

Later on Jan. 29, Meta agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve a 2021 federal lawsuit in which Trump alleged First Amendment violations after being suspended from Meta’s platforms following the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot in 2021.

According to the Wall Street Journal, who was the first to report on the settlement, Meta had previously argued that Trump’s claims were baseless because the First Amendment applies only to government censorship.