Frances Haugen
American data engineer, scientist, and whistleblower
Photo: Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- Oct 8
Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning and Robert Pattinson's Primetime lead this week's film openings
Sorkin's Facebook drama, built around a young Facebook engineer and the Wall Street Journal's reporting, and Pattinson's reality TV thriller are among six films opening this week.
- Oct 8
Sorkin's The Social Reckoning opens in theaters, dramatising Frances Haugen's Facebook leak
Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison play the Wall Street Journal reporter and Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen, whose 2021 leak of internal documents drives the story. The film arrives as Meta faces a settlement that La Razón reports at 18 billion dollars.
- Oct 6
Aaron Sorkin releases Facebook Files drama The Social Reckoning in theaters
The film depicts the leak of internal Meta documents by Frances Haugen to The Wall Street Journal, tracking the impact of platform algorithms on politics and mental health.
