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Aaron Sorkin's film depicts Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager, as she leaks internal documents to the Wall Street Journal and testifies before Congress, highlighting her efforts to expose platform issues. The movie combines real events with some timeline adjustments, notably placing key moments on January 6, 2021, instead of their actual dates.
Aaron Sorkin tells WIRED he spent years fielding pitches for a follow-up to The Social Network before finding his angle: former Facebook engineer Frances Haugen, who leaked internal documents to journalist Jeff Horwitz. Those documents became the Wall Street Journal's 2021 'Facebook Files' series, which detailed the company's internal knowledge of harms ranging from hate speech to body image issues that it allegedly downplayed while prioritizing growth.
Aaron Sorkin has written and directed 'The Social Reckoning,' a companion film to 'The Social Network' built around The Wall Street Journal's reporting with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. The movie traces Haugen's time at the company and uses her account to show how its pursuit of growth turned it into a societal hazard, with Mark Zuckerberg a prominent but secondary figure.