Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue:
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This week, director Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, a follow-up to The Social Network, opens in U.S. cinemas. The 2010 film was about how Facebook was founded. This one is about the company’s moment of reckoning: whistleblower Frances Haugen’s decision in 2021 to walk out of the company with tens of thousands of pages of internal documents.
Haugen, played by Mikey Madison in the new film, was a product manager on Facebook’s civic integrity team. She gave the documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, and they later became the basis of an investigative, award-winning series of stories that the Journal called The Facebook Files. Among other things, the series revealed that the company’s own researchers had found Instagram made...
After a weekend of demonstrations culminated in France’s most violent night of unrest, the mood in the country remained tense on Monday (October 19) as the government announced partial curfews in ...