British comedian calls Zuckerberg ‘child spreading Nazi propaganda’

British actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen tore into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Golden Globe awards with a subtle jibe at latter’s policy for his social media platforms. Baron, minated for leading role in a mini-series, was introducing a satire film Jojo Rabbit about a member of a Nazi youth group who does propaganda work.

“ hero of this next movie is a naive, misguided child who spreads Nazi propaganda and only has imaginary friends. His name is Mark Zuckerberg,” said Cohen followed by laughs from audience.

comedian n cleverly apologised for “mistake” and said he somehow got confused with ar movie. “Sorry, sorry. This is an old intro for Social Network. I’m actually talking about Jojo Rabbit. It’s minated for two Golden Globes and it’s directed by its star, brilliant and groundbreaking Taika Waititi,” he added.

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'Greatest propaganda machine in history'

This is t first time that Cohen has targeted Zuckerberg for carrying out “propaganda”. During Anti-Defamation League’s ‘Never is w’ summit in vember, 48-year-old actor lambasted Facebook as “greatest propaganda machine in history”. “If Facebook were around in 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his ‘solution’ to ‘Jewish problem',” said Cohen while speaking at summit on antisemitism and hate.

Zuckerberg has been facing wrath of civil society and political leaders for his company’s advertisement policy. Facebook CEO has been adamant on t filtering out political advertisements that carry fake news while Twitter stopped accepting political advertisements, starting from vember 22. 

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in a series of tweets, said that internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, but similar power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect lives of millions. “Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale,” tweeted Dorsey while making anuncement.

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