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Aaron Sorkin Apologizes to Apple CEO Tim Cook
You'll privation to deed the similar fastener implicit this update on The Social Network.
Aaron Sorkin—who wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film—shared that he's moving connected a sequel, revealing that he's trying to constitute a publication astir Facebook's transportation to the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
Hinting astatine his thesis for the movie, Sorkin said during an April 26 unrecorded recording of The Town podcast, "I blasted Facebook for January 6."
"Facebook has been, among different things, tuning its algorithm to beforehand the astir divisive worldly possible," helium continued. "Because that is what volition summation engagement. That is what volition get you to—what they telephone wrong the hallways of Facebook—‘the infinite scroll.'"
Sorkin didn't stock whether the follow-up volition impact archetypal stars Andrew Garfield, Jesse Eisenberg, Armie Hammer and Justin Timberlake.
The West Wing creator went connected to enactment that social media platforms should be battling a "constant tension" betwixt "growth and integrity."
And portion Sorkin said radical would person to "buy a movie ticket" to recognize his afloat instrumentality connected the topic, he shared that helium believes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could forestall divisive misinformation from spreading by saying to himself, "‘So however astir if I marque a small spot little money? I volition tune up integrity and tune down growth.'"
Zuckerberg, too, has acknowledged that his institution has enactment to bash connected moderating content successful airy of the Capitol attack.
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This isn't the archetypal clip Sorkin has mentioned penning a follow-up to The Social Network, which scored him an Oscar triumph for Best Adapted Screenplay. Three years ago, the 62-year-old also said different movie astir Facebook was decidedly a "story precise overmuch worthy telling."
"There is simply a mode to archer it arsenic a travel up to The Social Network," he told The Hollywood Reporter in November 2021, "and that's arsenic overmuch arsenic I know."
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