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How does Aaron Sorkin turn the Facebook Files into cinema?
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Following his 2010 film The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin dramatises the Facebook Files leak, tracing how reporter Jeff Horwitz began examining algorithms in 2019 before whistleblower Frances Haugen testified in 2021.
- 2010The Social Network released
- 2019Horwitz examines algorithms
- 2021Whistleblower testimony
He frames the investigative drama as an asymmetrical conflict, explaining: It is a David and Goliath story, but there are two Davids. One is Frances. She picks up a rock and throws it at Facebook, and the other is print journalism. They pick up a rock and they throw it at tech.
“It is a David and Goliath story, but there are two Davids. One is Frances. She picks up a rock and throws it at Facebook, and the other is print journalism. They pick up a rock and they throw it at tech.”
To capture the staggering reach of that corporate Goliath, the film pits a whistleblower and a reporter against an online empire where 3.35 billion people use Meta apps every day.
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