As Aaron Sorkin logged back into Facebook for The Social Reckoning, his friend request to Jesse Eisenberg was denied. The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network (2010) explained that “it never occurred” to him that Eisenberg wouldn’t want to reprise his portrayal of Meta mogul Mark…

Promising he is “very close” to naming a new AI Czar, Donald Trump was full of praise and hyperbole today for the “outstanding” and very well-heeled bosses of OpenAI, Meta, X, Anthropic, Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Palantir and Google. Amid a backlash against data centers, worries of massive…

As Jeremy Strong delivers his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg, Aaron Sorkin has shed some light on the method actor’s process for this role. The Social Reckoning writer/director was “not shocked” that Strong didn’t tell him about writing an email to Zuckerberg, confirming that the Oscar-nominated…

UPDATED with new trailer, 4:05 PM: “I’m an investigative reporter, and that guy and this company are playing an unprecedented role in our lives.” So begins the latest trailer for writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, which hits theaters October 9 — more than a decade and a half…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta took a victory lap following a proposed settlement of up to $17 billion for claims brought by 51 attorneys general against Meta, suggesting that the parent of Instagram and Facebook realized that a trial was not going well for their side. As Bonta went…

While giving his all to his The Social Reckoning portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeremy Strong reached out to the Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder. The Oscar nominee recently revealed that he emailed Zuckerberg to assure him he takes the “responsibility very seriously,” noting that the tech…

In the second phase of New Mexico’s big bucks social media lawsuit against META, a judge today slapped the Mark Zuckerberg-created tech giant with a penalty in the hundreds of millions of dollars and also put some potentially big restrictions about what the company can and cannot do when it comes to…

Just days after Meta introduced its Muse Image AI generator, the Mark Zuckerberg-run company has done a complete U-turn. Under pressure from a now-victory-lap-taking CAA and SAG-AFTRA, the tech behemoth announced Friday that the feature is “no longer available” on Instagram, admitting they…

CAA is getting pretty meta about the implications and intentions of Meta’s new Muse Image. Essentially, the Zoe Saldaña, Tom Cruise, Charlize Theron and Dhar Mann-representing uber agency want the Mark Zuckerberg-founded tech giant to hit the reset button ASAP on its newly introduced AI image…

Mark Zuckerberg might think those Kylie Jenner-branded Meta smart glasses are cool, but you know what is really cool? Not having to pay California and three other states virtually the entire valuation of your company. The Social Network script paraphrasing aside, that’s the position Meta’s…

Over a month before a second potentially seminal social media trial is set to start in California, YouTube has reached a deal to get out of having to show up in court. “YouTube's decision to resolve this case before having to face a jury speaks for itself,” attorneys for 15-year-old R.K.C. said…

While Aaron Sorkin is revisiting the godfather of Facebook, Jesse Eisenberg has moved on from playing Mark Zuckerberg after more than 15 years. Following their collaboration on The Social Network (2010), which recounted Zuckerberg’s creation of the social platform, Sorkin admitted he tried for…