Episode 337 - Social Reckoning, Falling, Other Mommy, Animals
Oct 15, 2026 · 25 min · 8 segments
Have a request for an upcoming segment? Send me a Text Message! Big releases this week include THE SOCIAL RECKONING, FALLING, OTHER MOMMY, and…
Oct 15, 2026 · 25 min · 8 segments
Have a request for an upcoming segment? Send me a Text Message! Big releases this week include THE SOCIAL RECKONING, FALLING, OTHER MOMMY, and…
[ graphic swooshes] First up, Facebook's most guarded secrets are revealed to an investigative reporter.
[tense music] Do you have an interest in social media?
Not even a little bit.
Look, I'm an investigative reporter, and that guy and this company are playing an unprecedented role in our lives.
Start with a gentle nod to show engagement.
Yeah, not so much.
A little softer.
Yeah.
He's not looking for trouble, he's hunting for it.
You can't use my name, and this is all off the record.
What would you like to talk about? I ran classifiers on political groups where 30% of content hits multiple risk factors.
Hang on, I don't understand what you're saying.
Aren't you a tech reporter? Ish.
Ish?
Written and directed by Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin, The Social Reckoning serves as a companion piece to the Oscar-winning 2010 film, The Social Network.
This time, shifting focus from Facebook's founding to the high-stakes internal breach that exposed its global impact on society.
Believing in the platform's potential to foster a global community bringing people together, Frances grows increasingly concerned as she witnesses leadership repeatedly disregarding public safety and mental health in favor of user engagement and growth algorithms.
Meanwhile, political reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, works for The Wall Street Journal and begins tracing a disturbing pattern connecting online radicalization, misinformation, and real-world political unrest.
Lacking technical expertise but convinced of the platform's societal dangers, Horwitz reaches out to contacts within Silicon Valley, eventually establishing a covert dialogue with Frances Haugen.
As political tensions boil over in early 2021, around the time of the January 6th attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Haugen makes the risky decision to turn whistleblower, collecting tens of thousands of internal documents, research studies, and executive memos.
Working through secret meetings and encrypted exchanges, she and Horwitz spend nearly two years vetting the files while somehow escaping internal corporate surveillance.
[ graphic swooshes] First up, Facebook's most guarded secrets are revealed to an investigative reporter.
[tense music] Do you have an interest in social media?
Not even a little bit.
Look, I'm an investigative reporter, and that guy and this company are playing an unprecedented role in our lives.
Start with a gentle nod to show engagement.
Yeah, not so much.
A little softer.
Yeah.
He's not looking for trouble, he's hunting for it.
You can't use my name, and this is all off the record.
What would you like to talk about? I ran classifiers on political groups where 30% of content hits multiple risk factors.
Hang on, I don't understand what you're saying.
Aren't you a tech reporter? Ish.
Ish?
Written and directed by Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin, The Social Reckoning serves as a companion piece to the Oscar-winning 2010 film, The Social Network.
This time, shifting focus from Facebook's founding to the high-stakes internal breach that exposed its global impact on society.
Believing in the platform's potential to foster a global community bringing people together, Frances grows increasingly concerned as she witnesses leadership repeatedly disregarding public safety and mental health in favor of user engagement and growth algorithms.
Meanwhile, political reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, works for The Wall Street Journal and begins tracing a disturbing pattern connecting online radicalization, misinformation, and real-world political unrest.
Lacking technical expertise but convinced of the platform's societal dangers, Horwitz reaches out to contacts within Silicon Valley, eventually establishing a covert dialogue with Frances Haugen.
As political tensions boil over in early 2021, around the time of the January 6th attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Haugen makes the risky decision to turn whistleblower, collecting tens of thousands of internal documents, research studies, and executive memos.
Working through secret meetings and encrypted exchanges, she and Horwitz spend nearly two years vetting the files while somehow escaping internal corporate surveillance.
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