Sacha Baron Cohen, who last year called on Facebook to censor content, now unhappy with Facebook for censoring his content

Doug P. | 3:44 PM on October 24, 2020

Late last year Sacha Baron Cohen accepted the Anti-Defamation League’s International Leadership Award. In his speech, the Borat and Bruno actor argued in favor of censorship for social media sites, including Facebook:

Thank you, @ADL, for your International Leadership Award. My message: if we want to stop hate, we have to regulate Facebook and social media – the greatest propaganda machine in history. My full speech here: https://t.co/WD23rHVLMY

— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) November 21, 2019

Fast forward almost a full year, and the lesson has become “be careful what you ask for”:

.@Facebook – I criticized you for not blocking false info about Covid. Now your AI is blocking my article because the photo has false info about Covid!

Instead of just AI, use the $ you've made during Covid to hire more humans to moderate and factcheck!https://t.co/XV7Tf8CfKo

— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) October 13, 2020

Something appears to have backfired!

"When I told you to censor, I meant you should censor OTHER people!" https://t.co/9TwAiuhMwB

— jon gabriel (@exjon) October 24, 2020

Whoops!

Wants Facebook censorship.

Gets Facebook censorship https://t.co/67MZL6PAvq

— Ankur Gaikwad (@GaikwadAnkur) October 24, 2020

Sacha Baron Cohen lobbies for Facebook censorship.

Is then censored by Facebook.

"You get what you f***ing deserve." https://t.co/RBslAdallh

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) October 24, 2020