Andreessen responded by reposting the religious leader\u2019s thoughts with a screenshot of the GQ journalist from that recent interview with Sydney Sweeney<\/a>. The journalist\u2019s face notably bore a skeptical expression, seeming to imply Andreessen\u2019s disgruntlement over the Pope\u2019s views. The post, which has now been deleted but was viewed by one of Gizmodo\u2019s editors before its expungement from the web, apparently inspired the ire of those web users who would prefer their AI with a little bit of \u201cmoral discernment.\u201d<\/p>\n What were X users mad about? Frankly, it\u2019s sorta unclear. It looks like there were a hodgepodge of complaints, without any super coherent through line. Some accounts identifying as Christians seemed upset that their religious leader had been criticized. Others just took it as a sign that Marc was spouting BS again.<\/p>\n The charge initially seems to have been led by one prominent user, @growing_daniel, who replied to<\/a> Andreessen\u2019s post by merely saying: \u201cDon\u2019t mock the pope.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n One user, whose bio identified him as a Christian, said that<\/a> the Pope\u2019s message was a \u201cvery sober and important warning to those building some of the most advanced and revolutionary technology of all time,\u201d and said it urged Andreessen and his ilk to \u201cremain aware of the responsibility they hold to ensure these quasi-magical tools work to serve humanity.\u201d He called Andreessen\u2019s mockery \u201cso very telling about the state of entrepreneurship and innovation today.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Pope > Marc Andreessen by a wide mile in terms of trust. I\u2019m not even particularly religious at all. In fact I\u2019m down right agnostic,\u201d another user wrote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMarc primarily funds gambling apps, cheating apps, and bot farms,\u201d another user, startup founder Daniel Francis, wrote<\/a>. \u201cHe does not want you to build things that are actually good for society.\u201d<\/p>\n There were also a decent number of posters (perhaps more than those actually bashing Andreessen) who ran to his defense, and more than a few dunking on the religious leader. Case in point, one poster said<\/a>: \u201cFuck the pope he\u2019s a commie traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n Later, Shaun McGuire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, also sought to clear Andreessen\u2019s name. \u201cI love Marc Andreessen,\u201d McGuire wrote<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s brilliant and principled He\u2019s a deep thinker who can back up his ideas to any level of depth Good luck to his haters.\u201d<\/p>\n There were also a number of users who seemed to be merely entertained by the fact that Andreessen seemed to have been bullied into deleting his tweets. \u201cWith enough bullying, you, too, can wield the collective ire of tpot to force Marc Andreessen to delete his tweets about the pope,\u201d one user wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gizmodo reached out to Andreessen Horowitz for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Andreessen, pivotal co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, appears to have run afoul of the internet\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":371431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[17318,691,738,158,5388,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-371430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-a16z","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-the-pope","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-3.12.01\u202fPM.jpg\")
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