Overview
- The film, which opened Thursday, October 22, 2026, was written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and stars Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz.
- Sorkin’s script dramatizes events from 2019–2021 when Haugen provided internal Facebook documents to Horwitz and helped trigger the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” reporting that exposed internal research on platform harms.
- Critics agree the movie is timely and focused but differ on performances; LA NACION called the acting the movie’s weakest link and described Strong’s Zuckerberg as a caricature while Clarín praised Strong’s reconstruction and flagged awards potential.
- Reviewers note the film explains specific mechanisms such as the Meaningful Social Interactions metric and internal findings about Instagram and extremist group recommendations, tying those systems to real harms like teen body-image damage, misinformation and links to the January 6 Capitol violence.
- The project’s production shifted from an expected Fincher–Eisenberg follow-up to Sorkin directing after Fincher’s Netflix exclusivity and Eisenberg’s decision not to return, and the film arrives during ongoing public and regulatory scrutiny of platform power that could revive debate over algorithm oversight.