Published Oct 22, 2026, 3:10 PM EDT

Charlene is a multifaceted writer, editor, and pop culture enthusiast. Over the past 10 years, her work has been featured in Glamour, GQ, HuffPost, Thought Catalog, The Sportster, We Got This Covered, The South African, and more. Her Bachelor of Commerce Degree gives her a unique insight into the business side of entertainment journalism.

The internet has made it easier than ever to connect with people and keep up with everything that's happening in the world. But it's easy to forget that the systems we depend on for these things don't make decisions for themselves. People decide how they're built and what type of content they prioritize. And those decisions have consequences that affect the lives of real people.

The 2026 American biographical legal thriller, The Social Reckoning, explores this problem when Facebook employee Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) discovers that the company's pursuit of engagement and revenue comes at the expense of user safety .…