Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as Facebook's COO after 14 years.
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., listens during a Bloomberg Television interview at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. Facebook Inc. reported revenue that beat Wall StreeSheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, is stepping down, according to a post Wednesday on her Facebook page. Sandberg has served as chief operating officer at the social media giant for 14 years.
Zuckerberg said this "this role will be different from what Sheryl has done. It will be a more traditional COO role where Javi will be focused internally and operationally, building on his strong track record of making our execution more efficient and rigorous." Sandberg has had some public missteps at the company, including her attempt to deflect blame from Facebook for the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In an interview later that month that was streamed by Reuters, she said she thought the events of the day were "largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, don’t have our standards and don’t have our transparency.
"Haven’t we had enough time to figure out how to manage discourse without enabling violence?" one employeeat the height of the Jan. 6 turmoil. "We’ve been fueling this fire for a long time and we shouldn’t be surprised it’s now out of control."
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