Factual error: Lobbyists (or any other private citizen) are not subject to Senate Ethics rules. Only actual senators are. Sloane committed no offence in organising an expensive vacation for a senator. The senator did by accepting it, though.
Factual error: The email Vee gets at the start is dated 2017, and calls for her to become part of the class of 2020. If she went to CalArts in September of 2017, she would be part of the class of 2021. (00:01:05)
Factual error: There would be no room for a thumb drive inside of a real Rubik's Cube due to the way they are constructed. When dismantled, the individual moving parts are quite small. It would certainly be possible to construct a facsimile of a Rubik's Cube that would have enough room, but it wouldn't be a fully functional puzzle the way it was in the film.