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- Aaron Sorkin told Vanity Fair he "was never asked" to omit Trump from "The Social Reckoning," his upcoming film about a young Facebook whistleblower.
- Sorkin said he voluntarily promised Sony's Tom Rothman the film would contain no Trump signage or "Make America Great Again" references, because he didn't want it to become "a red-blue thing."
- The Social Reckoning premieres Oct. 9 and centers on the 2021 document leak by Facebook engineer Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison.
- Jeremy Allen White stars as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, with Jeremy Strong, Bill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku, Billy Magnussen, and Betty Gilpin rounding out the cast.
- Sorkin both wrote and directed the sequel, framing the story as being about "Facebook's role and the rise of divisiveness, extremism, and hyper-partisanship in the country."
Why it matters: Sorkin's preemptive clarification signals Sony is managing audience expectations ahead of the Oct. 9 release of a film that, by its Facebook-whistleblower subject matter, could easily read as politically charged. By voluntarily scrubbing Trump references without being asked, Sorkin is trying to keep the conversation focused on Facebook's documented societal harms rather than partisan reactions to the film.
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