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‘The Social Reckoning’ movie review: Aaron Sorkin can’t optimise the MSIs in his (Meta)stised Facebook Files slop

‘The Social Reckoning’ movie review: Aaron Sorkin can’t optimise the MSIs in his (Meta)stised Facebook Files slop
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A critical review of Aaron Sorkin's film 'The Social Reckoning,' which examines the impact of Facebook on society. The author critiques Sorkin's directorial choices and the film's attempt to dramatize the 'Facebook Files' investigative series.

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It highlights the ongoing cultural and political scrutiny of Silicon Valley tech giants and their influence on global discourse.

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Tech CEOs are among the most terrifying products of 21st-century civilisation, largely because we have somehow convinced ourselves willingly or otherwise, to vest unprecedented political and cultural power in a bunch of sniveling men whose only qualification for exercising it is the pathological inability to imagine a world in which they are not the most important person in the room. Naturally, October has become 2026’s month to literalise the horrors of Silicon Valley, with Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman sketch Artificial , Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary Musk , Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes project You Can See Everything , and Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning lining up to anatomise this peculiar species of megalomania. Of the four, Indian audiences have only been subjected to Sorkin’s contribution so far.

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