Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin stated he’s operating on a movie that may heart on Facebook and social media’s position within the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol.
Sorkin teased the challenge when requested about the position social media firms play in moderating news all the way through a reside episode recording of the podcast “The Town with Matthew Belloni,” which used to be launched Friday.
“Look, yeah, I’ll be writing about this,” Sorkin stated. “I blame Facebook for January 6. I do.”
When prodded to provide an explanation for additional, he quipped, “You’re going to need to buy a movie ticket.”
He used to be requested if the challenge will function a sequel of varieties to his 2010 hit movie “The Social Network,” directed via David Fincher, which chronicled the upward push of Facebook and received Sorkin an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The screenwriter and director joked he’d give his publicist a destroy and evaded divulging extra.
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When requested who used to be accountable for the set of rules, Sorkin named Mark Zuckerberg, who based Facebook in 2004 and serves because the CEO of the social media platform’s mother or father corporate, Meta.
“You think if Mark Zuckerberg stopped it tomorrow then all the problems of this country would go away?” Belloni requested.
“There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There isn’t. There’s just growth,” Sorkin answered.
“If Mark Zuckerberg woke up tomorrow morning and realized there is nothing you can buy for $120 billion dollars that you can’t buy for $119 billion dollars —‘So how about if I make a little bit less money? I will tune up integrity and tune down growth.’ Yes, you can do that by honestly switching a one to a zero and a zero to a one,” Sorkin stated to a few cheers from the target market.
The Jan. 6 rise up noticed throngs of Donald Trump supporters besiege and destroy into the Capitol in try to overturn his loss within the 2020 presidential election.
Over the process Trump’s time in administrative center, social media firms got here below intense scrutiny over selling false news, politicians’ statements with no fact checking and divisive content material that may have misled or riled up customers — now and again influenced via overseas actors.
Thus a long way, over 1,387 Jan. 6 defendants were charged, and prosecutors have secured greater than 984 convictions.