Sacha Baron Cohen
Celebrities and social-media executives express concerns about hate online.
The Jewish comedian is reportedly planning a stand-up tour featuring the hip-hop character.
The Kennedy Center Honors Event shares the Jewish comedian’s take-down of the disgraced rapper.
The couple helped organize a plane load of 100,000 masks and 50,000 coveralls through a charity called Mail Force.
He told the crowd gathered to see him receive the Anti-Defamation League’s International Fellowship Award: “I believe it’s time for a fundamental rethink of social media and how it spreads hate, conspiracies and lies.”
ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt said the actor’s fictional and satirical characters “have made us laugh at the kinds of hatred and prejudice that under normal circumstances would be no laughing matter.”
