Much like its acclaimed predecessor, Aaron Sorkin's new film "The Social Reckoning" examines and dramatizes the real people in Mark Zuckerberg's orbit.
Billed as a companion piece to the 2010 hit film "The Social Network," which told the story of Facebook's early-aughts founding and rapid climb to a multibillion-dollar valuation, "The Social Reckoning" stars Jeremy Strong as a grown-up Zuckerberg in the throes of wealth, power, and scandal.
"The Social Reckoning" also stars Oscar winner Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen, better known as the "Facebook whistleblower."
Starting in September 2021, The Wall Street Journal published "The Facebook Files," an investigative series made possible by Haugen, a data scientist and former product manager on Facebook's civic integrity team.
Haugen leaked tens of thousands of internal documents after leaving the company, sharing many with reporter Jeff Horwitz (played by Jeremy Allen White) to expose its harmful policies and prompt change at the company.
Here's everything to know about the real-life woman who inspired Madison's character.
Born and raised in Iowa, Haugen studied computer engineering and later earned a master's degree in business from Harvard.
In her 2023 memoir, "The Power of One," Haugen writes that when she arrived in Silicon Valley in 2006, it was very much a boys club. She felt like an outlier.
"Blonde women were on the sales team or were marketers," Haugen writes. "They...
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