Aaron Sorkin is working on a Jan. 6-focused follow-up to The Social Network

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Aaron Sorkin is working on a Jan. 6-focused follow-up to The Social Network

Aaron Sorkin has announced that he’s currently writing a followup script to The Social Network,

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. He broke the news during an episode of The Town podcast that centered on how in the years since his Oscar-winning hit. The first film chronicled the early days of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network and starred Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, among others.

Sorkin is cagey on the actual details of the new script, but it looks to follow

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throughout the Trump era. He went on to tell the podcast hosts that he actually blames the social media site for the January 6 riots that

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. “Look, yeah, I’ll be writing about this,” Sorkin told podcast hosts Matthew Belloni and Peter Hamby. “I blame

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for January 6.”

He didn’t give any reason as to why he blames

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for the ******* on the capitol, telling the podcast hosts that they will have to “buy a movie ticket.”

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as part of the investigation into January 6. Lawmakers that

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to handle the “Stop the Steal” movement, which was organized on the platform, and that it didn’t recognize the danger posed by these groups until after the ********* in DC.

Whistleblower Frances Haugen told Congress that

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after the 2020 election. She also has said that

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knew its algorithms and platforms and that “it ******* to deploy internally recommended or lasting countermeasures.” According to Haugen, the company chose profits over safety.

Sorkin has obviously been paying attention to all of this, saying in the same interview that “

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has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement.” He further dinged the company by suggesting that “there’s supposed to be a constant tension at

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between growth and integrity. There isn’t. There’s just growth.”

Now, don’t go heading to your local multiplex to buy a ticket for The Social Network 2: Electric Boogaloo just yet. The script is still in the early stages and Sorkin hasn’t announced a partnership with any studio to get the film made. This also isn’t his first attempt to get something like this off the ground. He was previously working on a script entirely about January 6, but it didn’t move forward. It ******** to be seen if some aspects of that script will end up in followup to The Social Network, should it actually get made. He told the

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that he would only push to make a sequel to The Social Network if David Fincher returned to direct it.

If a studio does sign on to make this project, which is fairly likely given the success of the 2010 film, it leaves me with two glaring questions. Can Jesse Eisenberg

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