The Social Reckoning: Speaks truth to power

The Social Reckoning (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated R, for profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 10.18.26Although director David Fincher’s The Social Network was a blistering indictment of the greed and betrayal involved with Facebook’s founding and subsequent rise in popularity — fueled by scripter Aaron Sorkin’s marvelously barbed, Oscar-winning adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires — that film now seems quaint. Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) watches,with mounting horror, while Facebook employee Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison)reveals the many ways that her company sacrifices user safety while in pursuit ofever more "clicks."Facebook had “only” 608 million subscribers by the end of 2010. Most of the world still got reliably accurate news and information from other trusted sources.Today, Facebook has slightly more than three billion active users,…