A movie on Facebook files leak to hit theaters this year

Sony dropped the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, in which Succession star Jeremy Strong plays Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The highly anticipated spiritual sequel to Sorkin’s 2010 critical hit, The Social Network, centers on former Facebook data scientist and whistleblower Frances Haugen (played by Oscar-winner Mikey Madison), who collected internal data showing the company prioritized profits over user safety.

In 2021, Haugen helped reporter Jeff Horwitz (played by The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White) publish an investigative Wall Street Journal article named The Facebook Files.

It showed Facebook and Instagram’s upper management’s decision to bury internal findings regarding the platform’s societal damage and mental health risks to teenage girls.

Since then, several other former Facebook employees, including Haugen, have testified to Congress about the company’s failure to address teen harassment on its social media sites. The movie is slated for an October 9 release.