The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg doesn’t like being ‘associated with’ Mark Zuckerberg

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Jesse Eisenberg has distanced himself from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, saying: “I don’t want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that.” The 41-year-old actor was Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Eisenberg explained that he hadn’t been “following life trajectory, partly because I don’t want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that. “That’s what I think of, but not as somebody who played in a movie, but just as someone who’s married to a woman who teaches disability justice in New York and the lives of her students are going to get a little harder this year.” Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Zuckerberg Meta, Zuckerberg’s company that oversees Facebook and Instagram, announced earlier this year that it is planning to do away with fact-checkers. Two members of Meta’s independent Oversight Board, Alan Rusbridger, Independent columnist and former editor of The Guardian, and novelist Khaled Mansour, subsequently warned that misinformation will “undermine public trust” and stressed that the impact on the credibility of sites such as Facebook could be “exorbitant” and could lead to wide civil disturbance.