Facebook Movie Writer Aaron Sorkin Unfriended
The Social Network seems more fictional than ever upon the revelation that the screenplay's writer Aaron Sorkin only joined Facebook temporarily to do research.
The saying for the movie poster for The Social Network, “You don’t get to 500 million friends [now it’s close to 700 million] without making a few enemies” seems awfully hypocritical now that the screenplay’s writer, Aaron Sorkin, revealed that he only joined Facebook temporarily to do research.
Sorkin spoke at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Wednesday, admitting he is no longer a member of Facebook.
The news seems to be costing him some credibility in the eyes of the public, who had up until this week come to regard The Social Network as a factual history of Facebook, even though employees of the company have been the most vocal in calling the movie fiction, not fact.
CNN’s Piers Morgan interviewed Sorkin at the event, and he spoke critically about Twitter’s effects on modern news.
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