Aaron Sorkin, who won a screenwriting Oscar for “The Social Network” about the early rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, has weighed in on the debate over the social giant’s policy to accep…
CEO’s “deep belief in free speech,” which is the justification Zuckerberg has provided for the hands-off policy on political advertising. But, Sorkin said, the Facebook decision to keep running ads for political campaigns is spreading outright lies — which have a “dangerous effect on our elections.”
Facebook’s service is currently running an ad, bought on behalf of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, claiming that former VP Joe Biden gave the Ukrainian attorney general a $1 billion bribe to not investigate his son. “Every square inch of that is a lie and it’s under your logo,” Sorkin wrote in the op-ed. “That’s not defending free speech, Mark, that’s assaulting truth.
In his op-ed, Sorkin recounted Zuckerberg’s “public accusation that the movie was a lie” but said the screenwriter didn’t contest that because the screenplay for “The Social Network” was “vetted to within an inch of its life by a team of studio lawyers with one client and one goal: Don’t get sued bySorkin also recalled Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg was invited to a preview screening of “The Social Network” and in the middle of the film turned to the producers in the room to ask, “How can you do...
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