Aaron Sorkin never intended to make a follow-up to The Social Network. But seeing that the 2010 film ended with the fact that Facebook was valued at only $25 billion, it was obvious the company’s story was far from over. Now valued at $1.90 trillion, Mark Zuckerberg has gone from wunderkind founder to tech oligarch. The Social Reckoning, the next installment of Sorkin’s Facebook saga, traces the fall out in late 2021 when the company’s product manager Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) leaked internal documents to Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, illustrating how the company knowingly aggravated political division and teenage mental health issues. While the earlier film centered on investor share battles, this film takes a darker turn, centering on a whistleblower scandal that changed the company’s image forever. Jesse Eisenberg, who embodied the college-drop-out-turned-CEO with such neurotic insolence has all but disappeared. In his place, Jeremy Strong, with chilling heartlessness, steps into the role of the billionaire titan. “It was like replacing Joe DiMaggio with Mickey Mantle,” Sorkin told The New York Times. The movie opens this Friday. —Maggie Turner