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‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg


Fifteen years after "The Social Network," director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called "The Social Reckoning."

Instead, the story centers around Frances Haugen(played by Mikey Madison), the former Facebook employee who leaked a massive trove of internal documents to a Wall Street Journal reporter (Jeremy Allen White) and accused the company of prioritizing “profits over people” in 2021. Among the most damning revelations from Haugen’s leak was internal research showing that the company was well aware that Instagram was harming the mental health of teenage girls. Haugen said in a Congressional testimony that Facebook was “ literally fanning ethnic violence ” in Ethiopia, since content moderation efforts in non-English languages were under resourced.

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