News Summary

• In 2010, Time magazine’s Person of the Year was not a world leader or entertainment icon but Mark Zuckerberg, the twenty-six-year-old creator of Facebook.
• That same year, Zuckerberg got the Hollywood treatment in the bio-pic “The Social Network,” directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin.
• In the earlier film, Jesse Eisenberg played Zuckerberg as a lonely, ambitious genius.
• At its best, the new film functions as its own form of whistle-blowing.