Mikey Madison plays a Facebook whistleblower in 'The Social Reckoning.' Here's where the real Frances Haugen is now.

Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison in "The Social Reckoning." Sony Mikey Madison plays Frances Haugen in Aaron Sorkin's new film "The Social Reckoning." In real life, Haugen is a former Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower.

Haugen testified before Congress in 2021 that Facebook was knowingly causing harm.

Much like its acclaimed predecessor, Aaron Sorkin's new film "The Social Reckoning" examines and dramatizes the real people in Mark Zuckerberg's orbit .

Billed as a companion piece to the 2010 hit film "The Social Network," which told the story of Facebook's early-aughts founding and rapid climb to a multibillion-dollar valuation, "The Social Reckoning" stars Jeremy Strong as a grown-up Zuckerberg in the throes of wealth, power, and scandal.

"The Social Reckoning" also stars Oscar winner Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen , better known as the "Facebook whistleblower." Starting in September 2021, The Wall Street Journal published " The Facebook Files ," an investigative series made possible by Haugen, a data scientist and former product manager on Facebook's civic integrity team.

Haugen leaked tens of thousands of internal documents after leaving the company, sharing many with reporter Jeff Horwitz (played by Jeremy Allen White) to expose its harmful policies and prompt change at the company.

Here's everything to know about the real-life woman who inspired Madison's character.

Frances Haugen began her career at Google in 2006 Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison on the set of "The Social Reckoning." Sony Born and raised in Iowa, Haugen studied computer engineering and later earned a master's degree in business from Harvard.

In her 2023 memoir, "The Power of One," Haugen writes that when she arrived in Silicon Valley in 2006, it was very much a boys club.

She felt like an outlier.

"Blonde women were on the sales team or were marketers," Haugen writes.

"They did not code — but I did." On that note: Sorkin told Business Insider's Jason Guerrasio that Madison was keen to dye her hair blonde, but he dissuaded her from the idea. (They did, however, agree to give Madison a shorter haircut.) "I didn't want her worried about that in the performance," Sorkin said.

"I always worry, like for instance, if I cast a British actor and they need to do an American accent, is that going to be your concern every moment of every day? Are you going to be able to do what I need you to do in terms of getting into the text if all you're thinking about is the American accent?" In "The Social Reckoning," Haugen is shown dealing with dismissive comments from male colleagues, like one who tells her to join a dating app because she would "benefit from loosening up." Haugen spent the first eight years of her career working in various positions at Google.