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The follow-up to The Social Network focuses connected nan fallout of immoderate of Meta's secrets being exposed.
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Sony Pictures has released nan first trailer for The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network that brings nan communicative of Facebook/Meta crashing into nan 2020s. While nan original movie focuses connected nan early days of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg becoming (at nan time) nan world's youngest billionaire, nan caller movie is astir immoderate of nan harms Meta reportedly perpetuated and nan fallout of those coming to light.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen is simply a cardinal fig successful The Social Reckoning. In 2021, Haugen claimed — among different things — that Facebook played a portion successful nan dispersed of predetermination misinformation and nan insurrection that took spot astatine nan US Capitol successful January that year. "Facebook, complete and complete again, has shown it chooses profit complete safety," Haugen said aft leaking documents that indicated, for instance, nan institution allowed VIPs to break its rules and that it was alert Instagram had a antagonistic effect connected teens' intelligence health.
Oscar victor Mikey Madison plays Haugen successful The Social Reckoning, while Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) portrays Jeff Horwitz, a newsman for The Wall Street Journal who collapsed nan news of her revelations. Succession's Jeremy Strong — possibly successful a small threat of being typecast arsenic whiny, coddled billionaires who are very typical boys — takes complete nan domiciled of Zuckerberg from Jesse Eisenberg. Sorkin, who wrote some The Social Reckoning and its predecessor, is successful nan director's chair this clip (David Fincher directed The Social Network).
The trailer depicts Haugen and Horwitz attempting to get nan connection retired astir immoderate of Meta's deepest secrets while acknowledging that doing truthful whitethorn put them successful danger. The film's type of Zuckerberg, meanwhile, is successful defiant mode arsenic "a free reside absolutist" erstwhile confronted by a characteristic (played by Bill Burr) astir "the firehose of bad accusation you are injecting into nan aerial supply." In what appears to beryllium a mock hearing, Zuckerberg characterizes his business arsenic "a master defendant."
The Social Reckoning is set to deed theaters connected October 9.
