Jeremy Allen White says he's keeping his children away from social media after starring in dark Facebook whistleblower drama The Social Reckoning

Jeremy Allen White has said that he's keeping his children away from social media after starring in dark Facebook whistleblower drama The Social Reckoning.

The actor, 35, shares two daughters Ezer, seven, and Dolores, five, with his ex-wife – the actress Addison Timlin.

Jeremy and Mikey Madison star alongside Jeremy Strong in the follow-up to the celebrated 2010 Facebook movie The Social Network.

While Jesse Eisenberg famously played Mark Zuckerberg in the original, Jeremy Strong will now step into the tech mogul's shoes.

Set for release on October 9, The Social Reckoning follows the 2021 Facebook leak by whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey) and Jeff Horwitz (Allen White).

Speaking at the New York premiere for the film on Tuesday night, Jeremy was asked: 'As a dad with kids who are going to grow up in this digital world, how did this movie make you recognise what they should or shouldn't be allowed to have access to online?'

He replied: 'I get really nervous about young people and certainly my own children with stuff like this. I think it's hard enough growing up comparing yourself to other kids in school and your community.

'And when you get this thing on your phone, you see the world. You're comparing yourself to everything and you're getting desensitised. 

'I think we should keep young people's worlds as small as we can for as long as we can so they can get to know themselves before comparing themselves to anyone else.'

He added to Entertainment Tonight: 'There's beautiful things about Facebook, Instagram, all this stuff you can learn, you can connect with people all over the world but when a dependency is formed, especially when young people start using it too early...

'That's when it gets scary for me. So I'm going to try to keep my girls away from it as long as I can.'

Jeremy and Addison split in 2023. Since then he has been romantically linked to his The Bear co-star Molly Gordon. 

The synopsis for the new American legal thriller reads: 'A companion piece to the hit film The Social Network, Sorkin's original screenplay is based on the events that gave rise to the Wall Street Journal's shocking exposé The Facebook Files. 

'The film is inspired by the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.'

The trailer saw Jeremy Strong step into his role of Mark for the first time. 

In the trailer fans see Frances meet with the reporter Jeff as she tells him she wants to 'help Facebook, not hurt it'.

Then in a courtroom, we see Jeremy step into the role of Mark as he remains stony faced until he shouts: 'Enough. People around here understand that when I say no it is the end of the debate.' 

Aaron Sorkin has returned to the franchise as both the writer and director after winning the Academy Award for the best adapted screenplay for The Social Network. 

When the trailer premiered at CinemaCon earlier this year, Aaron explained why he needed to make a sequel to the 2010 drama. 

'There isn't a life that Facebook's algorithm hasn't touched, and that influence has shaped everything. So it's time to say more,' he said. 

Jesse Eisenberg played Mark in the original, and even earned an Oscar nomination for the impressive performance. 

However, last year the actor said he has zero interest in being associated with Facebook or Meta. 

During an interview with BBC Radio 4, the filmmaker spoke out against the mogul while he was promoting his Oscar-nominated movie A Real Pain.

'I haven't been following his life trajectory, partly because I don't want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that,' he explained in a clip shared online by the BBC.

He continued: 'It's not like I played a great golfer or something and now I want people to think I'm a great golfer – it's like this guy that is doing things that are problematic, taking away fact-checking and safety concerns.

'Making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.'

'I'm concerned just as a person who reads a newspaper,' he added, after he was asked whether Meta's recent editorial decisions 'concerned' him. 'I don't think like about, 'Oh I played the guy in the movie.''

He continued: 'It's just I'm a human being and you read these things and these people have billions upon billions of dollars, more money than any human person has ever amassed.

'What are they doing with it? Oh, they're doing it to curry favor with people who's preaching hateful [things]?'