The Social Reckoning opens on the side of the highway. Police pull up on a white woman, whose car is pouring smoke. She\u2019s drunk, and not civil; the interaction between her and the police escalates, until she whips out her phone and starts berating the officers, hurling racist insults, before they arrest her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWatch me own DEI cops\u201d is the caption accompanying the video, posted to a fictional right-wing Facebook page called \u201cVoice of Reason.\u201d It catches the attention of Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison, a data scientist on Facebook\u2019s \u201ccivic integrity\u201d team\u2014which was established, we later learn, \u201cto create tension between growth and safety\u201d inside the tech company. Haugen knows the Karen flipping out in the video from a workout class and, get this, the woman was a progressive before she became a Facebook power user and then, apparently, a right-wing extremist.<\/p>\n
As Haugen tells anyone who\u2019ll listen, that\u2019s no coincidence: As she tries to tell her boss, then her deskmate, and then Jeff Horwitz, an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she \u201cran a classifier on 251 political groups\u201d and \u201c30 percent of content hits multiple risk factors,\u201d including political polarization and misinformation. Wow, multiple risk factors? You can imagine what captivating cinema this all makes for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Social Reckoning opens on the side of the highway. Police pull up on a white woman, whose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-878654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}