The Cast Goes Inside the Story Behind The Social Reckoning

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From Aaron Sorkin’s script to the characters bringing it to life, the cast takes viewers inside The Social Reckoning.  Inspired by true events, the film follows whistleblower Frances Haugen and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz as they take on a powerful social media giant and expose closely guarded secrets. The cast explores the characters, the stakes and a story built around the idea that information can change the course of the world — but revealing it can come at a price.  Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, The Social Reckoning is only in cinemas October 9, 2026.

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00:03Facebook knew exactly what was going on.

00:05They needed engagement by any means necessary, regardless of what happens.

00:11The timing is incredible in terms of all of the real-world things that are happening revolving around the same

00:19platform.

00:19There's, you know, all sorts of information and misinformation being spread.

00:23There needs to be boundaries and sort of like control in the way that we're digesting all of it.

00:31Her emotional restraint. In the movie she says that she's someone who's more comfortable behind a computer screen.

00:39Yeah, I just, I liked Jeff right away. I thought he was incredibly smart, quick, playful.

00:44Just, it jumped off the page and, you know, we got to speak Sorkin's words, which was, you know, which

00:48was the real thing.

00:53No room. Nothing. Not a single thing.

00:55Yeah.

00:56I don't think there's even room to take like a full breath or a pause.

01:00You know what you wrote in that girl's life?

01:02Well, she's gonna be fine.

01:03No.

01:05She won't be.

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