Sacha Baron Cohen targets Mark Zuckerberg in an election post on Twitter

Sacha Baron Cohen launched a new attack on Mark Zuckerberg over the weekend, targeting the CEO of Facebook in a social media post about Donald Trump.

The Borat star shared on Twitter an image of Zuckerberg shaking hands with Trump in the White House, along with the barbed wire caption: “ One down. One to go.

The provocative remark was made by the 49-year-old on Saturday, shortly after Joe Biden was announced as the projected winner of the 2020 election, making Trump a one-term president.

Baron Cohen has long been a vocal critic of Zuckerberg, having sparked his tirade in a keynote speech at the Anti-Defamation League conference in November last year.

The British actor and comedian has slammed Facebook and other social media sites for ‘facilitating … all this hate and violence’ which has led to a ‘surge’ in hate crimes and a increase in “ murderous attacks on religious and ethnic minorities ”.

“All of this hatred and violence is facilitated by a handful of Internet companies that make up the greatest propaganda machine in history,” he continued.

In his remarks, Baron Cohen lambasted Zuckerberg and five other tech executives whom he collectively dubbed “the Silicon Six” – a group that includes Google CEO Sundar Pichai; Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin; YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki; and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

“The Silicon Six – all billionaires, all Americans – who care more about increasing the price of their shares than about protecting democracy,” said Baron Cohen.

“ This is ideological imperialism – six unelected people from Silicon Valley imposing their vision on the rest of the world, not being accountable to any government and acting as if they were outside the law. ”

Baron Cohen kept most of his criticism specifically for Zuckerberg.

“It’s like we live in the Roman Empire, and Mark Zuckerberg is Caesar,” said Ali G.

At least that would explain his haircut.

Baron Cohen, who is Jewish, also criticized Zuckerberg and Google for refusing to ban Holocaust deniers from the social network, a policy decision that has since been overturned.

‘[Zuckerberg] said he found Holocaust denial posts “deeply offensive”, but he didn’t think Facebook should delete them “because I think there are things different people are wrong,” Baron said Cohen.

“ Right now, there are still Holocaust deniers on Facebook, and Google still takes you to the most disgusting Holocaust denial sites with a single click.

“One of the people at Google once told me, incredibly, that these sites only show ‘both sides’ of the problem.

“This is madness,” he continued, before suggesting that if Facebook had existed in the 1930s, then Zuckerberg would have allowed Hitler to run ads targeting Jews, without opposition.

Reflecting on last month’s speech, Baron Cohen said he felt compelled to “ sound the alarm ” over Facebook’s “ absurd ” handling of Holocaust denial and other racist content.

Speaking to The New York Times, he said the speech was “ completely out of my comfort zone ” as he says he generally tries to avoid weighing in on political issues.

“It was the first time I had given a major speech with my own voice, but I felt I had to sound the alarm and say that democracy is in peril this year,” said Baron Cohen. “ I felt that even though this was going to destroy my career and people were going to come up to me and say, ‘Shut up, the last thing we need is some other celebrity telling us what to do’ – I fully understand the people who do this – I felt I needed to do this to live with myself.

Just two months after his ADL speech, Baron Cohen launched a similar attack on Zuckerberg in a Golden Globe Awards speech, calling him a “naive and stray child who spreads Nazi propaganda.”

The comments came as Baron Cohen presented the film JoJo Rabbit – a satirical film about a German boy enlisted in the Nazi youth whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler.

“ The hero of this upcoming film is a naive and misguided child who spreads Nazi propaganda and has only imaginary friends. His name is Mark Zuckerberg.

As awkward gasps and laughter erupted in the audience, the comedian continued, “ Sorry, sorry. This is an old intro for the social network. I’m actually talking about JoJoRabbit. It is nominated for two Golden Globes and headed by its star, the brilliant and revolutionary Taika Waititi.

Zuckerberg has long been criticized for taking a more laissez-faire approach to content moderation than his other Silicon Valley peers. But, following the #StopHateForProfit global campaign that saw hundreds of businesses pull ads from the platform for hate speech issues, Zuckerberg changed course a bit in 2020.

It has adopted more aggressive content moderation policies, with Facebook last month announcing it would ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.

Zuckerberg said a rise in anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic violence was driving the decision.

“My own thinking evolved as I saw data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as did our broader hate speech policies,” he wrote on his personal account.

“I struggled with the tension between defending free speech and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust,” he added.

Now, if a Facebook user clicks on a post that contains inaccurate or false information about the Holocaust, they will be redirected to credible information on an external site, the company said.

Zuckerberg was not the only victim of Baron Cohen’s taunts on social media on Saturday.

As multiple networks predicted Trump was heading for presidential defeat, Baron Cohen took to Twitter to mock the single-term president.

He said: ‘Donald – you are unemployed and I know I have offered you a job. But your performance last week was tragic and sad.

“Offer canceled,” he added.