The Social Reckoning is a ‘surreal’ portrait of social media’s harms, scientist says
The movie is based on the true story of how Facebook employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle on the company’s safety practices
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Aaron Sorkin’s new movie The Social Reckoning, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Social Network, tells the story of whistleblower Frances Haugen, a Facebook employee who showed that the company knew its platforms harmed some users.
Haugen, played in the film by Mikey Madison, shared Facebook’s internal data with journalist Jeff Horwitz (played by Jeremy Allen White) at the Wall Street Journal . The resulting investigation, “The Facebook Files,” was published in 2021. It and other reporting led to congressional investigations, lawsuits and more action against Facebook—much of which is…
