CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – On the night he accepted the inaugural Virginia Film Festival Career Producer Honor, Todd Black publicly questioned whether Meta, the company that owns Facebook, was using its influence to suppress enthusiasm for Black and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s new film, “The Social Reckoning.”
Black and Sorkin appeared on stage at the Paramount Theater on Thursday night following a screening of the film. Asked by the moderator what has surprised him about the national audience’s reactions to the film, Black bluntly said, “that more people haven’t seen it.”
He went on to intimate that Meta could be behind the film’s box office struggles, using its algorithm to tamp down chatter about the film, which follows whistle blower Frances Haugen and journalist Jeff Horwitz’s efforts to expose Facebook officials for ignoring internal information that showed the platform was negatively impacting society…