The show ‘Doomsday Machine’ is based on the best-selling book ‘An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination’ by Shira Frenkel and Cecilia Kang.
British star Claire Foy will play top Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg in the upcoming scripted series “Doomsday Machine”.
The show is based on the New York Times bestselling book “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination” by Shira Frenkel and Cecilia Kang.
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It will focus on the relationship between the social media giant’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and Sandberg, who serves as the company’s chief operating officer (COO), as well as the obstacles Facebook faced in its continued quest for growth. Is. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the drama series, which comes from Anonymous Content and Wipe, is being written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and writer Ayad Akhtar.
The show has hired several journalists as consultants to ensure the accuracy of the plot.
The purpose behind the series is to put viewers in the place of Sandberg and Zuckerberg as they shape the way billions of people communicate and consume information.
The “Doomsday Machine” will track the past five years at the social media giant, beginning with misinformation surrounding the 2016 election and until recent revelations in The Wall Street Journal and The Times that some users were trying to circumvent the platform’s rules. will be allowed.
It will be produced by Anonymous Content’s AC Studios and YIP.
Foy is best known for playing Queen Elizabeth II in season two of the Netflix series ‘The Crown’. She has also starred in films such as “First Man”, “Unseen” and “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”.
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