Jesse Eisenberg: I don't want to be associated with Mark Zuckerberg

Jesse Eisenberg, who starred arsenic Meta main enforcement Mark Zuckerberg successful 2010 movie The Social Network, has told BBC News helium nary longer wants to deliberation of himself "as idiosyncratic associated with idiosyncratic similar that".

"It's similar this feline is... doing things that are problematic, taking distant fact-checking," Eisenberg told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "[There are] information concerns. Making radical who are already threatened successful the satellite much threatened."

Meta announced past period it would nary longer usage autarkic fact-checkers connected Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style "community notes", wherever commenting connected the accuracy of posts is near to users.

In a video posted alongside a blog post, Mr Zuckerberg said third-party moderators were "too politically biased" and it was "time to get backmost to our roots astir escaped expression".

But Eisenberg told BBC News helium was "concerned".

"These radical person billions upon billions of dollars, similar much wealth than immoderate quality idiosyncratic has ever amassed and what are they doing with it?" helium said.

"Oh, they're doing it to curry favour with idiosyncratic who's preaching hate.

"That's what I think... not arsenic similar a idiosyncratic who played successful a movie. I deliberation of it arsenic idiosyncratic who is joined to a pistillate who teaches disablement justness successful New York and lives for her students are going to get a small harder this year."

Meta's determination came arsenic Mr Zuckerberg and different exertion executives sought to amended relations with US President Donald Trump, up of his inauguration.

Trump and his Republican allies had criticised Meta's fact-checking policy, arsenic censorship of right-wing voices.

And aft the changes were announced, Trump told a quality league helium was impressed by Mr Zuckerberg's determination and Meta had "come a agelong way".

Last week, Trump signed a ineligible settlement that volition spot Meta wage retired astir $25m (£20m).

He had sued the institution and Mr Zuckerberg, successful 2021, implicit the suspension of his accounts aft the 6 January Capitol riots.

Eisenberg is promoting A Real Pain, which helium wrote, directed and stars successful - a drama play astir 2 cousins who question to Poland unneurotic to sojourn Holocaust sites to honour their precocious grandmother.

The grandma is based connected Eisenberg's real-life Aunt Doris and was filmed astatine the location his household utilized to unrecorded in, successful Poland.

In the movie, the cousins conflict to reconcile their ain modern beingness problems against the backdrop of 1 of the 20th Century's astir devastating and horrific events.

Eisenberg's screenplay has received an Oscar nomination, arsenic has his co-star, Kieran Culkin.

"Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors should aftermath up each greeting and spell extracurricular and buss the crushed that they're live and convey immoderate deity they commune to - arsenic the satellite didn't privation them to beryllium alive," Eisenberg told Today.

He said helium had "tried to link to bigger things" since making the film.

"I unrecorded successful a satellite that feels hedonistic, my beingness is possibly excessively easy."

He added that it was indispensable the movie had a comic feel.

"It would beryllium truthful sanctimonious without immoderate humour successful it."

Eisenberg was besides nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Mr Zuckerberg successful The Social Network.