Jesse Eisenberg wants to block Mark Zuckerberg from his life

Drop the "Zucker." Just "Berg," and then add an "Eisen." It's cleaner.

More than a decade after he played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg wants to deactivate his account. On BBC Radio 4 today, Eisenberg said he doesn't "want to think of himself as associated with someone like Zuckerberg." The comments come during a time of increased public scrutiny of the unfirable Facebook founder, who recently paid the president $25 million for suspending Trump's Facebook account after Trump used Facebook to stage an insurrection and whose products, Amnesty International reports, "substantially contributed" to a genocide. Why wouldn't someone want to be associated with that? "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 said. "It's not like I played a great golfer or something, and now people think I'm a great golfer."

However, Eisenberg doesn't blame Zuckerberg's late-in-life man-o-sphere rebrand as the cause of his problems. Instead, he focuses on Zuckerberg's "problematic" policies around fact-checking. "Taking away fact-checking and safety concerns, making people who are already threatened in the world more threatened." The actor says he's "concerned" as someone who reads a newspaper, criticizing how Zuckerberg and his ilk spend their obscene wealth. "These people have billions upon billions of dollars, like more money than any human person has ever amassed, and what are they doing with it? Oh, they're doing it to curry favor with somebody who's preaching hate."

Ever mindful of the actor's job to empathize with his characters, Eisenberg doesn't say this as "a person who played him in a movie." "I think of it as somebody who is married to a woman who teaches disability justice in New York and lives for her students are going to get a little harder this year."