Sony Pictures has dropped the first trailer for The Social Reckoning, and if the original left you questioning the cost of ambition, this one asks what happens when the bill finally comes due.
A companion piece to the 2010 Oscar-winning drama The Social Network, the film centers on Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer played by Mikey Madison in her first role since her Oscar-winning turn in Anora. Haugen enlists Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, to expose the platform’s most closely guarded secrets, a high-stakes mission that mirrors the real-life events behind The Facebook Files, the 2021 investigative series that revealed Facebook’s harmful effects on teens and its role in spreading misinformation.
Aaron Sorkin returns to both write and direct, a step up from his adapted screenplay duties on the original. Jeremy Strong takes over the role of Mark Zuckerberg from Jesse Eisenberg, playing an older, seemingly untouchable version of the Meta CEO. In the trailer, Strong’s Zuckerberg calls himself a “free speech absolutist” and tells the room: “People understand that when I say no, that’s the end of the debate.”
BAFTA winner Wunmi Mosaku plays a key member of the team, guiding Haugen and Horwitz through the legal complexities of what they are about to set in motion. The full cast includes Bill Burr, Billy Magnussen, Betty Gilpin, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Anna Lambe, Aidan Laprete, Kelley Pereira, Nelson Franklin, Portia Doubleday, Patrick Fischler, Joey Brooks, Sierra Capri, and Tehmina Sunny.
The film is produced by Sorkin alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser, with Lauren Lohman, Roger McNamee, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Broderick Johnson, and Andrew A. Kosove serving as executive producers.
The Social Reckoning hits theaters October 9, 2026.