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Frances Haugen hopes The Social Reckoning will inspire more whistleblowers
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Aaron Sorkin's new thriller The Social Reckoning dramatizes Frances Haugen's 2021 Facebook document leak. The film aims to drive public discourse on corporate accountability and encourage future whistleblowing within the technology sector.
- 01The film depicts the leak of thousands of internal documents to the Wall Street Journal
- 02Frances Haugen hopes the cinematic portrayal inspires more corporate whistleblowers to come forward
- 03The production features actress Mikey Madison playing a character based on the former Facebook employee
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was mostly unfazed watching Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison play a character named after her in The Social Reckoning, except for one thing: the wrist warmers. In Aaron Sorkin's new thriller, the fictional Haugen - who, like her nonfictional counterpart, leaks thousands of documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz - […]