Aaron Sorkin’s new film, The Social Reckoning, opens this weekend with a thunderclap of moral certainty — and a quiet controversy simmering beneath the surface. The movie, which positions itself as a reckoning with digital deception, features a dramatised re-creation of January 6, 2021, where President Donald Trump, never named. Is shown egging on rioters in real time. Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg, watching from afar as chaos unfolds, while a character asks if Trump is trying to restore order. The answer, implied by the scene, is no. He’s inciting it. But according to Hollywood in Toto, that version of events isn’t just contested, it’s factually wrong. The article cites Trump’s actual Facebook and Instagram posts during the siege: calls for peace, demands for law and order, repeated pleas for people to go home. The post was removed by Facebook under its ‘dangerous individuals’ policy. Yet in Sorkin’s film, those words are erased. Instead, the narrative leans into a long-standing political framing: that Trump stoked violence. No major critic has questioned the sequence. Not one outlet has run a comparison between the film’s portrayal and the original social media content. That silence is telling. Sorkin, who once built a fictionalised Social Network on shaky facts, now delivers a biopic about misinformation. While embedding a disputed account of one of the most polarising days in recent American history. And here’s the irony: the film accuses platforms of prioritising clicks over truth. But it doesn’t pause to ask whether its own storytelling does the same. The release date is Friday. The debate starts Thursday night. In the theatre, the lights dim. On screen, Trump’s face flickers, unseen, uncredited, but unmistakable. The audience sits still. Then someone whispers: 'That’s not what he said.'