• slaacaa@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    2 days ago

    Great book. I wish it was being made into a movie, instead of whatever the fuck the 2nd Social Network movie will be about. Jessie Eisenberg was ready to play Mark again with Emma Stone as Sheryl Sandberg, but it never took off.

    • zikzak025@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 days ago

      I didn’t even know there was a followup movie in the works. I can understand why a sequel could be good given all that’s happened since, but I can’t understand doing so without most of the important people behind the first one. Sorkin’s a good writer, but I don’t think he was 100% responsible for what made the first one a good movie.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 days ago

        “Now watch as we enshittify our platform while buying out all the competition, manipulate national electoral outcomes with algorithmic profiling, and cover up our own internal studies on harmfulness in order to continue exploiting minors for profit!”

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            2 days ago

            Yeah, but what’s odd is that now there’s basically a court document that reveals that’s exactly what Meta was doing, they knew it’s what they were doing, and they decided to continue doing it anyway because it was their intention to do so all along.

            And yet they got slapped on the wrist and given a nominal fine…