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In the trailer for The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to his hit 2010 film, The Social Network, Frances Haugen arrives on the scene as whistleblowers often do: lit like a witness, seated across from an investigative journalist on a secluded park bench, carrying secrets that might change the world. The implication is immediate, and also familiar: She is a lone woman taking on one of the most powerful companies on earth, a “disruptor,” as the fictional journalist will call her before the screen fades to black, whose decision in 2021 to leak thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents—many of them focused on the platform’s harmful effects on children and teens—helped trigger a global reckoning over the harms of social media.
Directed and written by Sorkin himself, the film—which hits theaters October 9 and has been kept under tight wraps; even Haugen herself hasn’t seen it—stars Mikey Madison as Haugen; Jeremy Allen White as the journalist opposite her, The Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horowitz; and Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg. In an interview with ELLE, Sorkin calls it “a great David and Goliath story—if Goliath invited everyone to a party and spiked the punch, and David was a nerd.”
And yet when I meet the real Haugen, 41, what strikes me is how little she resembles the Hollywood archetype. It is easy, sitting across from her in a café on the Upper West Side, to forget she helped uncover one of the most consequential corporate...
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