The Social Reckoning gets first trailer; release date Oct. 9

Aaron Sorkin is back with another high-profile film about how Facebook wormed its way into our lives. Sony released a new trailer for The Social Reckoning, a biographical drama about the inner workings of one of the most powerful tech companies in the world. It will be in theaters on Oct.

9. Like 2010’s The Social Network, which Sorkin also wrote, the film follows Mark Zuckerberg — played in the trailer with alarming verisimilitude by Jeremy Strong — and the controversies around his company. It also centers on Jeremy Allen White as Jeff Horwitz, the Washington Post reporter whose investigative pieces revealed that Facebook Inc.

knew its platform was causing societal harm but chose profit over addressing those issues. Whistleblower Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison, leaked material compiled in The Facebook Files showing that Instagram harmed teenage users and that Facebook contributed to violence in developing countries while refusing to make changes.

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