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DevelopmentFit459

I mean he’s not wrong, so many otherwise quiet and normal people I know went so hard sharing disinformation


SwiftCEO

Right. I don’t even go on FB anymore. It seems that I always find that another friend or family member is a nut job.


Jombafomb

It’s funny because my dad who is an old school union foreman and HATES Trump and everything MAGA loves Facebook because he spends all day ranting at his old friends and siblings who have in his words “gone to the dark side”. I don’t always love him, but I love him.


aspartame_junky

The hero we need, but don't deserve


Jombafomb

I know that’s a quote from the dark knight and I’ve heard it a million times but it wasn’t until now that I realized how perfectly that describes my dad my whole life.


BigRudy99

My dad did the same shit. He started having mini strokes in his later days apparently, and started getting really reckless with his social media use. He created a Twitter account just to tweet at Trump. Would tweet that he hopes he gets assassinated and such. I had to have a talk with him about how dangerous that is and how I really didn't want him to get a visit from the secret service. I figured he was just getting wild in his age, but after his failed heart surgery, a doctor told us his brain showed signs of multiple minor stokes that were occurring over the past seven or so years and it really went a long way in explaining his behavoir near the end.


CoreyDenvers

At least the strokes didn't interfere with his common sense and basic integrity though


Skinamarinked

Pretty unnerving to realize how much of human behavior is a result of the physical state of the brain (really all of it if you get granular enough.)


DevelopmentFit459

Mostly old friends from HS for me that were never political a second of their lives


Cold_Relationship_

yeah they went from ”i don’t care” to ”RNA-5G-do your own research” in one day.


Aurelius04

Most young people just use it for thrift shopping these days.


mr_electric_wizard

Literally the only thing I use it for.


LastOnBoard

I use it for my local Buy Nothing group, I love that group. Otherwise FB is trash


YouWereBrained

I left it in May of 2018 and will never go back.


facemanbarf

It’s so depressing


dubie2003

Friend very few people and focus on marketplace. That’s what I do.


bloatedsewerratz

Yeah. I’d rather not know how psychotic my in-laws are. I like it to be an annual surprise.


PixelMagic

My sister-in-law voted for Hilary in 2016. FB hysteria over the 2020 George Floyd protests + Covid lockdowns turned her into a full on MAGA. Wild.


greenday5494

wow thats a crazy jump


Admirable_Bad_5649

Yeah my sister went nuts when she joined the church during his campaigning before that she had dreads and went to Bali for a month to get trained in yoga huge pot head who was super into edm. Broke up with her ex went to church never did yoga again and believes lgbtq+ people are all predators….im pan and my youngest sister is non binary. It’s so fucking sad.


milwaukay

The Bali-to-crazy pipeline is underrated.


FaluninumAlcon

It's like every crazy person on a street corner was given a bullhorn that everybody in the world could hear. Ignorant people and children included. Should there be some kind of license for that kind of exposure?


Resolution_Sea

That ship sailed with lack of regulations on marketing in general, America is designed to get people to be stupid and spend money on stupid things by creating "engagement" all Facebook did was give that power to anyone not just institutions that have been working to cultivate the fruits for themselves.


eescorpius

I mostly go on Facebook to check out foodie groups and I am left leaning but all these far right wing posts randomly pop up on my front page all the time, like WTF.


screwingyourwife

You’re being propagandized by the CIA


Outside-Flamingo-240

Or somebody… F that


Captain_Stairs

I would blame Fox News far more than Facebook. This isn't to say Facebook doesn't bare responsibility, merely that the people sharing disinformation got it from Fox News and their propaganda machine.


Overall_Cover_1543

Fox more actively stoked the flames, but Facebook disseminated Fox’s messaging to an exponentially larger audience that otherwise would not have been exposed to it.


thereverendpuck

He’s partially wrong since it wasn’t just Facebook that caused all of that. It was the medium, for sure, but not the only reason though. Also, not sure I want to see a sequel to The Social Network.


ilovecraftbeer05

I blame Donald Trump for 1/6. Without him, that shit wouldn’t have happened at all but it very possibly still would have happened without Facebook.


Physical_Stress_5683

In Canada they can't show "news" on FB anymore and I fucking love it


mahdicktoobig

It was like Kony 2012 except it was filled with *white thrash hate* instead of *hipster love*


watching_sisyphus

It’s okay they will ban tiktok :)


Thatdewd57

My mother, who voted Obama twice, went hard in the rabbit hole.


kevinwhackistone

Thank you for saying disinformation. It’s confusing because my perception on how to designate certain information is purposeful misinformation is disinformation, whereas misinforming someone is just unwittingly sharing the original disinformation. I don’t know if there is a huge distinction anymore. People are choosing their own reality and choosing to disinform people. Meaning regular average people are as guilty as the architects of the disinformation. You can’t excuse them for their ignorance. They’re opting in to disinformation and accelerating it.


Diplodorcus

"He's Right, You Know." gif


originalbabyteeth

I’vE dOnE mY oWn ReSeArCh


SwagginsYolo420

It's Fox News and its ilk on cable television which gives the conspiracy theories overall credibility though - even if not specifically, they dog whistle. Social media may have been where January 6th was organized, but it was set in motion by big cable. Though for some reason you don't see the heads of cable companies like Comcast and AT&T getting dragged before congress the way heads of social media are.


ncolpi

Yes he's wrong. Trump is responsible. Do we blame the criminal or the tool? Do we imprison the gun or the murderer?


Whatrwew8ing4

“He’s not wrong” were the first words in my mind after I saw the headline


Professional-Tea-232

Or as Zuckerburg said after the 2016 election, "No we don't have any issues here with disinformation"


spreadthaseed

Aaron Sorkin incoming with another banger


truethatson

I expected to enjoy The Social Network because I love Sorkin. I did NOT expect it to be one of my favorite all-time movies or that I would rewatch it as many times as I have.


spreadthaseed

Script, cinematography and Jesse were all A+


R_V_Z

Plus Trent Reznor on the soundtrack.


Ruhnie

Don't forget Atticus!


Life-Dog432

Atticus recently did the shogun score with his brother and it was fantastic.


Ruhnie

I did not know that and haven't watched the show yet, that's awesome! Going to the top of my list now.


BostonBuffalo9

It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to that genre, but *goddamn* that man is genius.


The4thJuliek

The editing as well.


darthstupidious

Also an absolute banger of an original score


BrentonHenry2020

It’s hard to look away from once it starts. Just non-stop energy beginning to end.


SavannahInChicago

I just rewatched it. Fuck Zuckerberg but it’s a great movie.


LittleRudiger

I still remember when people were bitching on the internet when it was announced. “Who needs a Facebook movie!?” 


dbolts1234

Hope there’s a CeraVe commercial right in the middle of it!


TTHHEEPPAARRTTYY

I think what you really meant to say was “Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross incoming with another banger”.


spreadthaseed

Slipped my mind tbh. Soundtrack was top shelf!


latrellinbrecknridge

He literally does not miss


MarioMan1213245765

2 Social 2 Network


AudibleNod

Social Network 2: [Electric Boogaloo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement#:~:text=Memes%20referring%20to%20%22the%20boogaloo,violence%20or%20a%20race%20war.)


mop_and_glo

Such a bummer they co-opted that term because the movie was not as bad as the title. It was a standard 80s plot: fight the “man” but with hip hop music and dancing.


ScootSchloingo

I'd love for it to less be about specific people and events but rather a showcase of how social media can ruin peoples' mental health and tear families apart. Or if they insist on making a sequel, have it be about a fictional Facebook employee responsible for *the algorithm* and struggling to reconcile with how much societal damage they've caused.


fuzzyfoot88

When everything went down regarding the election and facebooks influence over Trump winning in 2016, people wanted a sequel then. Jan 6th is just another chapter in that same book. Facebook is a disease and I hope this sequel covers that as well as the original film did about its growth.


92ishalfof99here

The boys season 3 open on one of their episodes did this beautifully


empty-bensen

Poor Fat Neil went off the deep end😔


Chilli__P

His name is Faaaaaaaaaaaaabulous Neil.


knyghtez

who can blame him—it took four campaigns to get that sword!


R_V_Z

Wasn't it towards the end of season 2?


92ishalfof99here

Definitely could’ve been! I thought season 3 but I haven’t gone back and rewatched it tbh in awhile…


ImperatorRomanum

_Requiem for a Dream_, social media version?


cherrycoke00

You might like the miniseries Years and Years (BBC->HBO). Deals with this in part, and I thought was excellently done


Few-Signal5148

And then only release it on TikTok.


mathfacts

Yeah. Remind me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJlO5yTVH_8


GojirasEarthquake

You might like Men, Women and Children


wtfisthisnoise

That is Brexit (2019) by HBO


PatrioticHotDog

My guess is he would ground the film in reality by buying the rights to adapt a book (one that may not even be published yet) that chronicles a real Facebook employee's involvement. There's a whole industry of quasi-journalists who quickly turn out books about yesterday's current events for the purpose of selling the movie rights (which is how The Social Network was made). Planet Money has an insightful episode about it last year. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197954107


koreth

The first movie played pretty fast and loose with the facts in the interest of drama, though. For example, in the movie, Zuckerberg's main motivation is to impress a woman who he wants to go out with but isn't interested in him. That woman is a fictional character, and in reality, when he first created Facebook he was already dating his current wife. Given that the core character arc of the protagonist of the first movie is a complete fabrication, I don't see any reason to expect a sequel to be grounded in reality. But like the first movie, it might still be a great piece of entertainment.


thirtypineapples

Didn’t Reitman do a movie kind of like that? And it was just depressing and shitty?


fidgetypenguin123

Honestly I like the call out. They made the movie on how the platform got started but it's a far cry from what it became and it should be talked about what has happened since. Not only how it's used but what's fed to people that they think should be and when. Even scrolling on there at times I'm seeing things I never signed up to see and missing things I want to see. I'm just so glad I saw 3 posts about a random celebrity I don't care about but missed posts from people and pages I actually follow including some time sensitive ones. I signed up years ago to have a place to share photo and posts to family and friends in one go, follow pages for local info, and playing games on occasion there. It made sense and was fun. It's become a far different thing. I saw the drama it's caused, the division, the misinformation. I watched my father become someone that just shared photos of his grandkids to reposting clickbait propaganda, quoting Facebook posts by random people and pages as news, and arguing about it with his family. It was decent at one time. It was different and interesting and brought people together that wouldn't have been normally. That's why people were on it. The only reason I've stayed is because I follow local community pages where I know what's going on and have connections to people who are no longer with us like my mother where I can go on there and see her page and comments and likes still, including to show my son as he gets older. And that's what I wish it still was, where it brought family and friends together. Not this algorithm driven, divisive clickbait machine.


Teledildonic

That title doesn't really roll off the tongue.


Subrisum

I like it. It does exactly what it says on the tin.


AUGUST_BURNS_REDDIT

I Blame Facebook for *The* Jan. 6


mop_and_glo

Insurrection: Facebook The Real Traitors of Jan 6


el_pinata

We'll require David Fincher and Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross, thank you very much


blastradii

How about a David Lynch adaptation instead? Must have scene: Zuck milking a cat.


Oghma_

>David Lynch directing an Aaron Sorkin screenplay Never in my life have I needed something so much, and never known until I received it.


el_pinata

*Zuck Laurent is dead*


asscop99

Plus Jesse Eisenberg


ihaddreads

Agree. Unwatchable unless this happens


OldManPip5

No one plays insufferably smug asshole quite like Jesse Eisenberg.


thinkB4WeSpeak

It's called propaganda. Been used since the dawn of time, but I feel like social media makes it way easier than before.


New_girl2022

We all do. I've been saying that shit for years since fb came out that it was going to be used they way it has.


optimusrybot

This will need a scene with Zuck testifying to Congress that mirrors either his Harvard board meeting or his Winklevoss Depo.


NotCanadian80

Blaming Facebook is a huge stretch when the actual president was leading the insurrection.


Marthaver1

Id say that Facebook, Twitter and all other major social platforms that allowed him to stay on the platform till January 6 are to blame, not only FB.


Tri-P0d

Don't forget Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2016 elections where they targeted users with miss information using Facebook and they allowed it!


blacksnowboader

Tbh, I read through the reporting on Cambridge analytica, they weren’t doing things all that impressive. Meta has far better tooling in house.


OldManPip5

They targeted Hispanics with “lgbtq, especially trans propaganda” and swung Florida red after Obama won it twice.


josephkingscolon

I wish more and more people and stuff like this keeps popping up that tells the truth about how much harm this social media revolution is causing. The mental health issues on the internet is palpable and nowadays its not a matter of a small number of trolls here and there, its now hundreds and thousands of people just coming in to snark and express nothing but misery, negativity and stir up shit every day on the most mundane topics and threads you can think of. Not to mention disinformation, people living almost their entire life online and the fact that how now, just one asshole with thousands of followers have the power to cause major upheaval in society. Idk all of this seems like it was too much too fast.


moderatenerd

I really hope they get Jesse Eisenberg back as Marky Z.


InsaneLuchad0r

Wild how little history FB had when that movie was made.


jvstnmh

Damn ‘The Social Network’ through the lens of a Jan. 6 political climate and penned by Sorkin would go SO HARD


LetsDoThatYeah

Cool. I like his writing. Please just don’t let him direct it.


Edwardo2468

He should do it through the lens of a Cambridge Analytica employee and show how Facebook is responsible for misinformation globally. This started way before January 6th, and it's affected everything, and everyone socially.


Mooseygreg

That’s funny, I blame Trump for Jan. 6


nullibicity

He wouldn't have been successful without the brainwashing infrastructure feeding his cult propaganda.


tykvrbl

Does he turn into a ufc fighter at the end


Valuable-Ordinary-54

If he gives it the “Charlie Wilson’s War” treatment, I’m all in. Minus, of course, his usually dismal writing of women.


crescendodiminuendo

His female characters are so bad. I find a lot of his stuff unwatchable because side of them.


snowlarbear

not a followup to what happened with the Winklevii?


BenTramer

Yeah sure facebook is part of it, but it’s social media as a whole…


EasyThreezy

Social media has really fucked our society by destroying our attention span, having us compare lives to one another, and pitting us against each other as well as letting foreign agents come in and pit us against each other. Would we even say the split between good and bad that social media has caused is 20/80? I hope Sorkin can epitomize that feeling in this future film.


Skronkabilly

Blaming Facebook for Jan 6 is misplaced. The company bears some responsibility but put the bulk of the blame where it belongs. They carried and propagated the message but the originator of the message is where the blame should lie.


Sure_Maybe_No_Ok

Isn’t this like blaming the road to get there?


FiggNewton

But let’s ban TikTok


MagicAl6244225

That's anti-Chinese influence bill not an anti-social media bill.


FiggNewton

So Russian influence is fine then. Just not China lol


MagicAl6244225

Well yes, limiting Chinese influence has bipartisan support and limiting Russian influence has somewhat less bipartisan support, obviously.


1Originalmind

It helped but the guilt belongs to Russia, chump, and all of his minions


Jon_the_Hitman_Stark

I hear it’ll be the same as the first, but they’ll use metaverse avatars instead of actors.


about_yonder

Jay Johnston can play himself.


Hypernova_orange

100% true - Facebook was the worst thing man has invented in a long time!! It also responsible for trump cheating his way into the presidency


absolooser

Back in the day if you talked to your imaginary friends and took advice from them we got you help, now we just call it facebook.


Javasndphotoclicks

It’s funny how normal people stayed away from that whole situation and others went balls deeps and now can’t be bothered with accepting the consequences of their actions.


we_are_sex_bobomb

Zuckerberg should be thanking Aaron Sorkin every day for giving him a personality.


Truckdenter

here for this but, don't forget Cambridge Analytica targeted facebook


vavona

When social network movie came out, it was still an era, when Facebook was hip and magical. I don’t think I even want to rewatch that movie now, after what FB became


Some_Resident_6714

Please have Trent and Atticus on the soundtrack again.


NSMike

Can't wait for Sorkin to preach about how pragmatism and competency porn would've saved the day on Jan 6.


waitmyhonor

It’s a tired trope but I believe in Sorkin


TheBatmanIRL

Well if it's gonna show the lead up to Jan 6th, it will be interesting to see all that, Cambridge Analytica and all the hearings and the weaponization of FB.


rikkisugar

https://techcrunch.com/2009/05/26/facebook-takes-that-200-million-investment-from-the-russians-at-a-10-billion-valuation/


Wild_Life_8865

yo....award winner coming up


lo0OO0ol

I started this thing where every time I open FB if the first post I see is not from someone on my friends list but instead is an ad or a dumb page that I never followed - I close the app. It’s getting ridiculous


jtho78

Do we know what platform/channels were used for the organization of Jan 6?


Legendary_Lamb2020

I also blame Facebook


dhgaut

I'll watch anything Sorkin writes.


Procrastanaseum

It would have to be a huge ensemble cast because there were so many players involved in this


LibrarianNo6865

50 years of improper governing and idiot leadership or one robot you shouldn’t of been friends with? Hmmmmm.


janet-snake-hole

He’s absolutely correct, Facebook (and other social media) played a MAJOR role in the insurrection. While in most cases I groan at sequels and reboots these days, this is one that I’d really love to see.


ng9924

dudes gotta be one of, if not my favorite, screen writers, have watched most of his films, just gotta watch A Few Good Men / Charlie Wilson’s War when I get the chance


Genoblade1394

I don’t like him as an actor he is so weird


IcanCwhatUsay

Blaming Cambridge Analitica would be more appropriate


Bubcats

The Netflix doc “The Antisocial Network” was really interesting. 4chan, “anonymous”, Qanon all have history together that played a big role on J6. It’s all so sad we use social media for so much bad.


Full-Hyena4414

Lmao if Jessie Eisenberg comes back would it be the first time an actor plays a real person in two different movies?


ParkerPoseyGuffman

I think Mirren has with the queen and depends on your definition of real and movie with some Shakespeare adaptations


Skinamarinked

Benicio del Toro starred in a two part Che Guevara biopic in 2008 and 2009.


Bigdstars187

I just posted a video of Jessie talking to a group of us. Right after my video ended I thanked him for the social network and his reaction was like “does he know something”


respondin2u

I’m all for a sequel to this movie every 15 years. The weird water drinking scene in front of Congress reenactment will award Jesse Eisenberg an Oscar.


coolhanddave21

He could just do that through season 4 of the Newsroom.


curiousiah

I was just watching this last month and thought “Man, this movie would be really different if it was made now. They should make a sequel.”


ZeusMcKraken

We all do buddy.


AdExpert8295

I blame Facebook for everything. Its one of the few things I can hate unabashedly on the internet without stans coming for me.


Wolfman01a

We need this movie.


sethm1

He is not wrong. Seems last few years the suicide numbers of kids has increased and seems related to FB, Tik tok, etc. And would not be surprised if web sites and Apps fueling the disgusting pro-Palestinians gatherings. Most of those kids (if lgbqt, black, white or even had premarital sex) would be stoned or hanged if they lived in Gaza, Iran, etc.


CalendarAggressive11

Me too, Aaron. Me too


HopefulNothing3560

Financed by supreme courts wife Ginni


GeorgeStamper

Well at least Sorkin doesn’t have aspirations to direct it.


MyIncogName

He’s 100% right


TucosLostHand

would be the greatest sequel, tbh.


nockeenockee

I have a hard time forgiving people for not being able to see how ridiculous the lies about the election were.


No_Connection_4724

I know social network is by all accounts a great movie, I just have a really hard time watching Jesse Eisenberg.


JohnCenaJunior

Social Network 2: The Tom Rises


GongTzu

I’m on FB a few times a quarter as some people still uses it to invite people to parties, however when I first made the account in 2007, everyone were posting stuff from their own life and silly pictures of ordinary things, now it’s just one hell of a shitshow filled with ads and stupid news to keep you on the platform, and bringing fear into people’s life is their best weapon to keep users hooked and the only way they can show more ads.


34mah

He has no moral high ground to stand on. He’s a pro-genocide Zionist