Jesse Eisenberg, who starred as Meta chief govt Mark Zuckerberg in 2010 movie The Social Community, has advised BBC Information he not needs to think about himself “as somebody related to somebody like that”.

“It is like this man is… doing issues which can be problematic, taking away fact-checking,” Eisenberg advised BBC Radio 4’s At the moment programme. “[There are] security issues. Making people who find themselves already threatened on the planet extra threatened.”

Meta introduced final month it will not use impartial fact-checkers on Fb and Instagram, changing them with X-style “neighborhood notes”, the place commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to customers.

In a video posted alongside a weblog submit, Mr Zuckerberg stated third-party moderators have been “too politically biased” and it was “time to get again to our roots round free expression”.

However Eisenberg advised BBC Information he was “involved”.

“These folks have billions upon billions of {dollars}, like extra money than any human particular person has ever amassed and what are they doing with it?” he stated.

“Oh, they’re doing it to curry favour with any individual who’s preaching hate.

“That is what I feel… not as like an individual who performed in a film. I consider it as any individual who’s married to a lady who teaches incapacity justice in New York and lives for her college students are going to get somewhat tougher this 12 months.”

Meta’s transfer got here as Mr Zuckerberg and different know-how executives sought to enhance relations with US President Donald Trump, forward of his inauguration.

Trump and his Republican allies had criticised Meta’s fact-checking coverage, as censorship of right-wing voices.

And after the adjustments have been introduced, Trump advised a information convention he was impressed by Mr Zuckerberg’s choice and Meta had “come a great distance”.

Final week, Trump signed a authorized settlement that can see Meta pay out roughly $25m (£20m).

He had sued the corporate and Mr Zuckerberg, in 2021, over the suspension of his accounts after the 6 January Capitol riots.

Eisenberg is selling A Actual Ache, which he wrote, directed and stars in – a comedy drama about two cousins who journey to Poland collectively to go to Holocaust websites to honour their late grandmother.

The grandmother relies on Eisenberg’s real-life Aunt Doris and was filmed on the residence his household used to stay in, in Poland.

Within the film, the cousins wrestle to reconcile their very own fashionable life issues in opposition to the backdrop of one of many twentieth Century’s most devastating and horrific occasions.

Eisenberg’s screenplay has obtained an Oscar nomination, as has his co-star, Kieran Culkin.

“Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors ought to get up each morning and go outdoors and kiss the bottom that they are alive and thank no matter god they pray to – because the world did not need them to be alive,” Eisenberg advised At the moment.

He stated he had “tried to hook up with larger issues” since making the movie.

“I stay in a world that feels hedonistic, my life is possibly too straightforward.”

He added that it was important the movie had a comic book really feel.

“It might be so sanctimonious with none humour in it.”

Eisenberg was additionally nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Mr Zuckerberg in The Social Community.