Aaron Sorkin takes on Facebook again, and this time he's furious
Aaron Sorkin's new film, 'The Social Reckoning,' dramatizes the whistleblowing of Frances Haugen and the subsequent exposure of Facebook's internal practices. The film explores how the platform's algorithms were allegedly designed to prioritize engagement through anger.
Why it matters
The film highlights ongoing public and regulatory concerns regarding the societal impact of social media algorithms.
Jeremy Strong takes the Mark Zuckerberg torch from Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Reckoning. ( Supplied: Sony Pictures )
Link copied Share Share article Two statistics are outlined in Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning, and they will follow you out of the cinema. The first: 64 per cent of people who joined extremist groups on Facebook were sent there by Facebook. The second: 32 per cent of teen girls said Instagram made them feel worse about their bodies.
What: A Facebook data scientist and a Wall Street Journal reporter blow the whistle on a company that knew its product was causing harm.
Starring: Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Bill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku.
Likely to make you feel: Like deleting social media; being suspicious of your algorithm.
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