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The Social Reckoning Sees Jeremy Strong Transform Into Mark Zuckerberg

11 June 2026 at 16:31
Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social ReckoningJeremy Strong has undergone a total transformation.In the first trailer for The Social Network sequel The Social Reckoning—which follows the whistleblowing events led by Frances Haugen (Mikey...

‘Enshittification’ reaches social media: ‘For Zuckerberg and Musk, your ‘friends’ are a burden. They just want you to see ads’

A friend is upset because you didn’t “like” a photo from her last trip, but the truth is you haven’t even had a chance to see it. Instead of displaying it on your feed, Instagram prioritized showing you ads for food.

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There was a time when social media was useful for connecting with like-minded people.

Frances Haugen: ‘We are worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents’

In September 2021, The Wall Street Journal published the Facebook Files, a series of reports based on internal documents from the tech company that, among other things, showed its executives were aware of the harms Instagram and Facebook were causing young people. It was a bombshell. It triggered the biggest reputational crisis for Mark Zuckerberg’s company, which weeks later rebranded as Meta. The person behind it was engineer Frances Haugen, 42, who left her post at Facebook carrying 21,000 internal documents. The U.S. Senate summoned her to testify, and investigations were opened into her revelations.

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After the leak, Haugen moved from California to Puerto Rico. From there she runs an NGO that fights for transparency in social media.Haugen decided to reveal herself a month after the leak in a television interview.

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Engineer Frances Haugen poses at the Llotja de Mar in Barcelona, where she participated in the First International Conference on Digital Rights.

Jesse Eisenberg Turned Down ‘The Social Reckoning’, Aaron Sorkin Says He Was Tired Of Being “Conflated” With Mark Zuckerberg

12 June 2026 at 21:47
While Aaron Sorkin is revisiting the godfather of Facebook, Jesse Eisenberg has moved on from playing Mark Zuckerberg after more than 15 years. Following their collaboration on The Social Network (2010), which recounted Zuckerberg’s creation of the social platform, Sorkin admitted he tried for three days to get Eisenberg to reprise his Oscar-nominated performance in […]

‘The Social Reckoning’ Cast: The Stars Playing Mark Zuckerberg & More

10 June 2026 at 15:30
Aaron Sorkin is delivering a different story about Facebook this time. Get to know the main cast behind 'The Social Reckoning' here.

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