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Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning' dramatizes WSJ's Facebook whistleblower investigation

A new film from writer-director Aaron Sorkin, titled The Social Reckoning, dramatizes the Wall Street Journal's Pulitzer-winning investigation into Facebook, known as 'The Facebook Files.' It follows reporter Jeff Horowitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, and whistleblower Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison, as she exposes internal research showing Instagram's harm to teen mental health and Facebook's algorithm promoting extremist content. The film depicts Haugen's path from Facebook engineer to congressional witness after she leaked internal documents in 2021.

Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning' revisits Facebook via whistleblower Frances Haugen

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.