Writer and director Aaron Sorkin brought production for his new movie, The Social Reckoning, to Vancouver last week. The sequel to The Social Network had crews assembling a tropical beach set on English Bay last week, and boasts big celebrities like Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), Mikey Madison (Anora), and Jeremy Strong (Succession, as if we’re just clamouring to see more of him in board rooms). Apparently the film will continue following Mark Zuckerberg after his website, Facebook, originally launched to voyeuristically rank the looks of his female Harvard classmates from the privacy of his dorm made global strides and established him as one of the most influential men in the world.

My biggest question is: why would anyone choose to watch this? The Social Network won Best Screenplay at the Oscars, but that was 15 years ago, and public opinion has shifted.

The Social Network lionized Zuckerberg. Yes, he was flawed in the movie, but it presents him as any genius is presented in a biopic. He was simply too much of a visionary to respect others, and in the end, it all works out for a guy like that, just like in real life.

We all know what happened after The Social Network. Facebook became overrun with ads and misinformation. Long before the days of AI, many young people considered Facebook unusable long before it was accused of tampering in the U.S. elections. Then, when the Canadian government asked Facebook to hold any responsibility for the content run on their site, their parent company (also owned and lead by Zuckerberg) retaliated by barring Canadians from all verified news content across Facebook and Instagram. The most ironic part of this, of course, is now only dubious news sources make their way across Canadian users’ feeds in an era where many use social media as their main news aggregator, leading many to have watered-down or sensationalized views of world events.

We all know what happened after The Social Network because we all lived it. We are still facing the consequences of the events of The Social Network. It isn’t fun, and it isn’t cute, a billionaire is controlling our access to information like he’s some sort of king. I don’t hold faith Sorkin will hold Zuckerberg accountable, why would he? This “reckoning” Zuckerberg experienced still leaves him owning over 2,300 acres of land on Kauai, and countless Canadians out of work from Meta’s aggressive business practices.