{"id":5185,"date":"2026-08-12T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:36:14","slug":"aaron-sorkin-says-facebook-is-completely-out-of-control-knowingly-pumped-rage-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5185","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Sorkin Says Facebook Is \u201cCompletely Out of Control,\u201d Knowingly Pumped \u201cRage Bait\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nAaron Sorkin says Facebook has gotten \u201cway out of hand\u201d and evolved into a social media monster that doesn\u2019t reflect what co-founder Mark Zuckerberg originally intended. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5183\">Netflix Renews \u2018Seinfeld\u2019 Licensing Deal for Five More Years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe writer and director of the upcoming film <em>The Social Reckoning<\/em> \u2014 the sequel to the 2010 hit <em>The Social Network<\/em> \u2014 tells <em>Esquire<\/em> in a new interview that the social media platform has become dangerous given how many of its billions of global users get their news from the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t want to get the stat wrong, but it\u2019s about a third of American adults get their news from Facebook,\u201d Sorkin said (Pew\u2019s latest research puts the number even higher, at 38 percent). \u201cThat is very dangerous. We\u2019re no longer agreeing that the sky is blue and two plus two equals four.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tContinued Sorkin: \u201cAnd by the way, let me be clear: I don\u2019t think Mark Zuckerberg ever intended for it to have a corrosive effect. I think his intentions were good. He was somebody who, like a lot of people, had difficulty fitting into the social structure of college life and probably high school. He invented his own social structure, and he got to be the mayor of it and couldn\u2019t be excluded from it. His brilliance is undeniable, and that was a cool thing and it got way out of hand. It\u2019s gone completely out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSorkin has previously declared \u201cI blame Facebook for January 6,\u201d and was asked about that connection in the new interview and whether it\u2019s part of the film.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5181\">Why Does Minnesota Keep Electing Entertainers?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWhat definitely is part of the movie is what Facebook did in 2018. They were in trouble. Engagement was going down, there was competition from TikTok, and they had to do something. So they retuned the algorithm \u2026 they knew that the things that get reshared the most are rage bait. So they began pumping into the air supply all this stuff intended to make you mad. Certainly, you can draw a line from that to January 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBased on true events, the new film centers on a young Facebook engineer named Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) who teams up with\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) on a risky mission to bring attention to the social network\u2019s biggest secrets. Jeremy Strong takes over the role of Zuckerberg from Jesse Eisenberg, who played the role in the first film. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 65-year-old screenwriter was also asked about his stroke, from which he thankfully says he\u2019s managed \u201cto recover 100 percent.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI had been not living a very healthy life,\u201d he said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t exercising enough. I was still eating the way I ate in college. I was smoking a lot. So I decided not to do that anymore. And it wasn\u2019t even because I felt bad. It was because I saw the look in my daughter\u2019s face. 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