The first trailer for “The Social Reckoning,” a sequel to the 2010 hit “The Social Network,” dropped on Wednesday, and critics are dragging the first look across coals, mocking director Aaron Sorkin and the choice of Jeremy Strong to play Facebook head, Mark Zuckerberg. The sequel follows the story of whistleblower Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison), who released thousands of internal Facebook documents to The Wall Street Journal and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) back in 2021, showing that Facebook leadership was aware of its algorithms radicalizing people and promoting harmful content but chose to keep such research away from investors. Critics unfavorably compared the trailer to a made-for-TV movie and questioned Strong being chosen to play Zuckerberg, with The Bulwark’s Sonny Bunch pointing out that Strong is 47 and Zuckerberg is 42, calling him “15 years too old to be playing this part.” Argus Insight founding partner Lachlan Markay wrote, “Every line of this trailer will have you cringing harder than the one before it right up until the last one, at which point you will actually laugh out loud,” while others described the movie as “too little, too late” and predicted the opposite of Oscars in the movie’s future.