Claire Foy to play Sheryl Sandberg in Doomsday Machine, a drama series about Facebook

The Hollywood Reporter

The Crown Emmy winner will portray Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, who helped Mark Zuckerberg make the social media platform the behemoth that it is today. The drama series from Anonymous Content and wiip doesn't yet have a network or streaming home. Doomsday Machine is described as a “riveting human drama chronicling the political and social minefields Facebook has navigated on its relentless quest for growth." Doomsday Machine specifically will look at the last five years of Facebook, beginning with disinformation surrounding the 2016 presidential election. The potential series, from Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar, will place viewers in the shoes of Sandberg and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as they shape the way billions of people communicate and consume information.