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The Social Reckoning and What’s Making Us Happy

October 9, 2026

Glen Weldon (0:00)

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Linda Holmes (0:34)

It's very corny.

Glen Weldon (0:40)

Don't call it a sequel. No, the new film, The Social Reckoning is a companion piece to the 2010 film, The Social Network. But where that first movie chronicled the invention of Facebook, The Social Reckoning focuses on where Facebook is now and what it's doing to the culture. It's framed as a kind of all the…

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