Hollywood actor Jim Carrey is urging people to stop using Facebook, saying it has 'profited with Russian interference' in the 2016 US election.

The star of 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' and 'The Mask' announced on Twitter that he's deleting his page after saying the company is not doing enough to stop Russian interference.

He is also selling his Facebook shares and has urged other people to do the same.

Reports suggested as many as 126 million Americans saw posts related to Russian interference during the 2016 election.

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Comedian Jim Carrey is urging people to stop using Facebook, saying it has 'profited with Russian interference' in the 2016 US election

The news comes after Jim Carrey was cleared of a wrongful death lawsuit last week, launched by the family of his ex-girlfriend Cathriona White, who committed suicide.

'I'm dumping my @facebook stock and deleting my page because @facebook profited from Russian interference in our elections and they're still not doing enough to stop it', 56-year-old Carrey tweeted.

'I encourage all other investors who care about our future to do the same. #unfriendfacebook.'

Facebook has not responded to Carrey's tweet, but founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said stemming the flow of misinformation is among the company's foremost goals.

'I'm dumping my @facebook stock and deleting my page because @facebook profited from Russian interference in our elections and they're still not doing enough to stop it', 56-year-old Carrey tweeted

In a longer statement sent to Fortune, a spokesperson for Carrey said; 'social media has created cyber-bridges over which those who do not have our best interest in mind can cross and we are allowing it.

'We must encourage more oversight by the owners of these social media platforms.

WHAT ARE THE CLAIMS ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE ON FACEBOOK DURING THE US ELECTION? Google, Twitter and Facebook have come under fire for allowing the spread of bogus news - some of which was directed by Russia - ahead of the 2016 US election and in other countries. In a blog post in September 2017, Facebook said that more than 3,000 advertisements posted between June 2015 and May 2017 had Russian links. These ads came from a Russian company called Internet Research Agency. According to CNN, Russia-linked Facebook ads were targeted to reach people living in Michigan and Wisconsin, both of which were won narrowly by Trump. Facebook told Congress that the apparent political meddling included use of its image-sharing application Instagram. Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch told a hearing that Instagram posts by suspect Russian accounts were seen by some 20 million Americans last year. 'I've expressed how upset I am that the Russians tried to use our tools to sow mistrust,' Zuckerberg said The data on Instagram is on top of the estimated 126 million Americans exposed to Facebook posts from Russian entities seeking to create divisions during the election campaign. 'I've expressed how upset I am that the Russians tried to use our tools to sow mistrust,' Zuckerberg said. 'What they did is wrong and we are not going to stand for it.' Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg addressed criticism over allowing disinformation and manipulation during the US presidential election, just hours after the company's top lawyer faced a grilling at a Washington congressional hearing at the end of last year. 'Our community continues to grow and our business is doing well,' Zuckerberg said. 'But none of that matters if our services are used in ways that don't bring people closer together. Protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits.' Advertisement

'What we need now are activist investors to send a message that responsible oversight is needed. What the world needs now is capitalism with a conscience.”

In October last year Facebook told Congress that ads representing 'foreign interference' in America's election system continued after Donald Trump won the White House – and appeared designed to hurt him.

Much of the focus on Russian involvement has come as part of a larger story that suggests Moscow instead sought to help Trump win the White House over Hillary Clinton.

The star of 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' (pictured) and 'The Mask' announced on Twitter that he's deleting his page after saying the company is not doing enough to stop Russian interference

THE HISTORY OF JIM CARREY AND CATHRIONA WHITE'S RELATIONSHIP A wrongful death lawsuit brought against Jim Carrey last week by the family of his ex-girlfriend Cathriona White has been dismissed in California. Carrey and White first met on a film set in 2012, where she was working as a make-up artist. In October of 2012, Carrey claimed he hired a lawyer to draft a prenuptial agreement and planned to marry White. But on January 7, 2013, they broke up and White married cameraman Mark Burton in Las Vegas just two days later. Jim Carrey (left) and late ex-girlfriend Cathriona White (right). Carrey had been accused by White's mother Brigid Sweetman and estranged husband Mark Burton of giving her STDs and providing the drugs used when she took her own On January 20, 2013 she had a 'bad wax job' and told Carrey that bumps on her genitals may have been an STD. In February 2013, they reconciled briefly but then broke up again, and at the end of February White told her therapist that she had contracted several STDs from Carrey. In April 2013, she penned an iPad note blaming him for the STDs and demanding an apology, and between mid-2013 and November 2014, Carrey claimed she demanded money in exchange for silence on STD claims and she received it. In November 2014, the two started speaking again and in May 2015, they reunited as a couple. Jim Carrey carries the coffin of ex-girlfriend Cathriona White to Our Lady of Fatima Church, in her home village of Cappawhite, Co Tipperary, Ireland ahead of her funeral On September 14, 2015, on White's 30th birthday, Carrey said she allegedly received a cruel message from her mother. Two weeks later, on September 28, 2015, White killed herself by taking a cocktail of pills and drugs. Soon after White's estranged mother and the dead woman's former husband had sued Carrey, claiming he gave her sexually-transmitted diseases and provided the drugs she used when she took her own life in September 2015. But Carrey's lawyer had claimed Miss White forged medical records to make it appear that she had no STDs before meeting Carrey. Advertisement

But Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch said in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that while his company first spotted the ads in the presidential primary season two years ago, they continued to run 'following the election.'

'We saw this concerted effort to sow division and discord,' Stretch explained.

'In the wake of the election – and now-President Trump's election – we saw a lot of activity targeted at fomenting discord about the validity of his election.'

The ads 'continued until we disabled the accounts,' he said.