{"id":148240,"date":"2025-02-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/jesse-eisenberg-mark-zuckerberg-who\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:00:00","slug":"jesse-eisenberg-mark-zuckerberg-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/jesse-eisenberg-mark-zuckerberg-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Eisenberg: Mark Zuckerberg, who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/jesse-eisenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesse Eisenberg<\/a> wants to make it crystal clear that he shouldn\u2019t be linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/mark-zuckerberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u2018s story anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><strong>A Real Pain<\/strong><\/em> creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/crr0x4qxxvko\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/crr0x4qxxvko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared his thoughts<\/a> on BBC Radio 4\u2019s <em>Today<\/em> show, emphasizing that he doesn\u2019t view himself as connected to the Meta CEO and Facebook founder simply because he played him in the acclaimed 2010 movie, The Social Network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t been following [Zuckerberg\u2019s] life trajectory, partly because I don\u2019t\u2026 when I think of myself as associated with somebody like that, it\u2019s not like I played a great golfer and now people think I\u2019m a great golfer. It\u2019s this guy that\u2019s doing things that are problematic,\u201d Eisenberg said. \u201cTaking away fact-checking and safety concerns, making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Meta revealed that Facebook and Instagram would abandon their independent fact-checking systems and instead adopt a strategy similar to Elon Musk\u2019s X, letting users provide community notes. Zuckerberg released a video statement calling the previous program \u201ctoo politically biased\u201d and stated it was \u201ctime to get back to our roots around free expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tech mogul\u2019s latest platform policy shifts have triggered concerns for Eisenberg as an individual \u2014 not as an actor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1692\" src=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/red-carpet-men-photos-10132019-08-1160x1692.jpg\" alt=\"Premiere Of Sony Pictures' &quot;Zombieland Double Tap&quot; - Arrivals\" class=\"wp-image-22558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/red-carpet-men-photos-10132019-08-1160x1692.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/red-carpet-men-photos-10132019-08-600x875.jpg 600w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/red-carpet-men-photos-10132019-08-800x1167.jpg 800w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/red-carpet-men-photos-10132019-08.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jesse Eisenberg attends the \u201cZombieland Double Tap\u201d Sony Pictures Premiere at Regency Village Theatre on October 10, 2019 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m concerned just as a person who reads a newspaper. I don\u2019t think about \u2018Oh, I played the guy in the movie and therefore.\u2019 I\u2019m a human being,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you read these things and people have billions upon billions of dollars, like more money than any human person has ever amassed, and like, what are they doing with it? They\u2019re doing it to curry favor with somebody who\u2019s preaching hateful things?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSo to me, that\u2019s what I think of. But I think of that not as a person who played [him] in a movie. I think of it as somebody who\u2019s married to a woman who teaches disability justice in New York and lives for her students are gonna get a little harder this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under <strong>David Fincher<\/strong>\u2018s direction and <strong>Aaron Sorkin<\/strong>\u2018s screenplay, <em><strong>The Social Network<\/strong><\/em> chronicled Facebook\u2019s beginnings against the backdrop of intense legal conflicts between Mark Zuckerberg (Eisenberg), Eduardo Saverin (<a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/andrew-garfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Garfield<\/a>), and twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (<a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/armie-hammer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armie Hammer<\/a>). The cast also featured <strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong>, <strong>Rashida Jones<\/strong>, <strong>Rooney Mara<\/strong>, and <strong>Dakota Johnson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The critically acclaimed film garnered eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and claimed victories in three categories: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/jesse-eisenberg-mark-zuckerberg-who\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jesse-eisenberg-mark-zuckerberg-who\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Eisenberg wants to make it crystal clear that he shouldn\u2019t be linked to Mark Zuckerberg\u2018s story anymore. The A Real Pain creator shared his thoughts on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today show, emphasizing that he doesn\u2019t view himself as connected to the Meta CEO and Facebook founder simply because he played him in the acclaimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}