{"id":1500161,"date":"2022-06-01T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500161"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:20:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:20:28","slug":"meta-facebook-coo-sheryl-sandberg-announces-shes-stepping-down-in-the-fall-amid-reports-she-tried-to-have-stories-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-facebook-coo-sheryl-sandberg-announces-shes-stepping-down-in-the-fall-amid-reports-she-tried-to-have-stories-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta (Facebook) COO Sheryl Sandberg Announces She\u2019s Stepping Down in the Fall Amid Reports She Tried to Have Stories Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeta-facebook-coo-sheryl-sandberg-announces-shes-stepping-down-in-the-fall-amid-reports-she-tried-to-have-stories-killed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\"><\/aside>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s longtime deputy Sheryl Sandberg said Wednesday that she\u2019s quitting her job as Meta\u2019s chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p>Sandberg, who\u2019s worth an estimated $1.6 billion according to Forbes, said in a surprise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheryl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook post<\/a> that she will step down in the fall and remain a member of the company\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years,\u201d Sandberg said. \u201cFourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news comes six weeks after the Wall Street Journal reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/21\/sheryl-sandberg-pressured-daily-mail-to-spike-stories-about-bobby-kotick-report\/\">Sandberg had twice pressured the Daily Mail to kill potentially damaging stories<\/a> about her then-boyfriend Bobby Kotick.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Journal, Kotick told associates that Sandberg warned the Daily Mail that any article they published regarding the situation could hurt the outlet\u2019s relationship with Facebook \u2013 whose platform is a considerable source of traffic and revenue for countless media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, which is reportedly probing the allegations against Sandberg, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on her resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Sandberg is also the author of \u201cLean In,\u201d a motivational book about women in the workplace.\u00a0She worked at Google prior to joining Facebook.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Sheryl Sandberg is Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s longtime deputy.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s longtime deputy Sheryl Sandberg said Wednesday that she\u2019s quitting her job as Meta\u2019s chief operating officer.\u00a0 Sandberg, who\u2019s worth an estimated $1.6 billion according to Forbes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1500211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}