Movie star Jeremy Allen White will portray business journalist Jeff Horwitz in a new movie, “The Social Reckoning,” which will be released in October by Sony, reports Jason Guerrasio of Business Insider.
Guerrasio writes, “Sorkin based the script on The Wall Street Journal’s expansive investigative series The Facebook Files, which delved into the social network’s impact on youth mental health, misinformation, and the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.”
Horwitz led the reporting on “The Facebook Files,” a 2021 series that exposed how Meta was aware that its social-media platforms were harming teenage girls and other users but failed to take action. The series won a George Polk Award and a Gerald Loeb Award. In 2024, he shared a Loeb Award for “The Dark Side of Meta’s Algorithms,” a series that revealed how Instagram and Facebook connected networks of pedophiles and served them disturbing content.
He previously was a financial and enterprise reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, where he broke stories about how former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had secretly worked to advance Russian interests. He has also worked for American Banker, Legal Times, the San Bernardino Sun and the Washington City Paper.
Horwitz now works at Reuters.
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