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2026 film by Aaron Sorkin
The Social Reckoning is a 2026 American biographical legal thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Aaron Sorkin. A sequel to The Social Network (2010), it dramatizes the 2021 Facebook leak by the whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeff Horwitz. It stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Bill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, and Billy Magnussen.
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Facebook is an American social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. The name Facebook derives from the face book directories often given to American university students.
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Frances Haugen's mother was 'upset' after the release of The Social Reckoning because the filmmakers cast a brunette actress, Mikey Madison, to play her daughter, even though Frances is actually blonde. In an interview with People Magazine, Frances lightheartedly quipped, "My mother was very upset that they cast a…
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