What The Social Reckoning gets right — and wrong

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="Image: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images | Getty Images" data-portal-copyright="Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/gettyimages-2298597150.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Image: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images | Getty Images </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">Aaron Sorkin's <em>The Social Reckoning</em> has its fair share of cinematic flair, but many details in the story hew closely to real life. The movie tells the story of how Frances Haugen, a Facebook civic integrity product manager, came to leak a large trove of internal documents to <em>Wall Street Journal</em> investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz, in what would later become a 2021 series called "<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039?mod=article_inline">The Facebook Files</a>." In both real life and in the film, Haugen's leaks lead her to testify as a congressional whistleblower. The final frames of the movie describe the impact she had even after that closing scene, speaking before governments around the world and bols …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/1007069/aaron-sorkin-social-reckoning-real-life">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>