- First trailer of The Social Network continuation, The social reckoninghas been released
- Stars Jeremy Strong, Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison in lead roles
- Film explores 2021 whistleblowing scandal, but release coincides with ‘silencing’ of another whistleblower
The first trailer of The Social Network continuation, The social reckoninghas been released (which you can check out below).
Starring Jeremy Strong, Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison, the new film will follow the 2021 leak of internal Facebook documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and The Wall Street Journal by whistleblower engineer Frances Haugen.
Described by Sony as a “spiritual successor” to The Social Network Instead of a traditional sequel, The social reckoning will pick up 17 years after the first film ends with an entirely new cast and swaps out director David Fincher for Aaron Sorkin (although Sorkin wrote the original script for both).
The trailer has divided opinion among fans online, with some praising Strong for his “terribly accurate” portrayal of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, while others have called it “unnecessary” and “SNL sketch.”
If you’re someone who’s been keeping up with Facebook-related news for the first few years, you’ll have noticed that the timing of the trailer’s release is particularly interesting.
While it doesn’t involve Haugen or anything we’ll see in the new film, another Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams, has been “silenced” by the company just days before. The social reckoning debuted with her first look.
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Almost at the same time as The social reckoning is starting to be promoted, Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Director of Public Policy at Facebook, was ‘banned’ from promoting her book Meta Expon, Careless People: A History of the Place Where I Used to Workat the Hay-on-Wye Literature and Arts Festival on May 31.
Because? Because Meta strongly disputed the book’s claims, the company obtained an arbitration ruling in the US before the book’s publication based on an agreement Wynn-Williams signed upon leaving the company.
This means that the author is prohibited from publicly promoting or discussing the book, and failure to follow the rules could result in penalties of up to $50,000 per violation. As a result, Wynn-Williams sat silently throughout her panel discussion at the festival.
The situation was described by panel presenter Carole Cadwalladr as “a perpetrator in a hostage situation”. Copies of the book were pulled from sale during the festival over fears that its sale could be linked to Wynn-Williams’ promotion.
For those who can’t wait The social reckoningThe release date is October 9. careless people is a fantastic starting point to begin learning about Facebook’s whistleblowing scandals (and I would recommend it as an audiobook on Spotify, Audible, and more).
Sales have reportedly increased 300% since the “silence.”
Featured whistleblower Haugen also has a memoir to help us while we wait, with The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Snitched on Facebook will be launched in 2023.
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