{"id":59928,"date":"2025-01-25T18:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59928"},"modified":"2025-01-25T18:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:22:59","slug":"former-meta-coo-sheryl-sandberg-faces-legal-action-over-alleged-email-deletions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/25\/former-meta-coo-sheryl-sandberg-faces-legal-action-over-alleged-email-deletions\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg Faces Legal Action Over Alleged Email Deletions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent<\/strong><br \/>\nSheryl Sandberg, former COO of Meta, has been sanctioned by a Delaware judge for allegedly deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.<br \/>\nThe emails, linked to a shareholder lawsuit, were reportedly sent from a personal Gmail account under a pseudonym.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit accuses Sandberg and former Meta board member Jeff Zients of using personal accounts to discuss matters tied to a 2018 case alleging Facebook leaders violated privacy laws and fiduciary duties.<br \/>\nThe plaintiffs claim Sandberg deleted emails despite a court order, leading the judge to impose sanctions, including a higher burden of proof for her defense and an award of expenses to the plaintiffs.<br \/>\nMeta, which paid a $5 billion fine to the FTC in 2019 for violating privacy agreements, is accused of breaching a 2012 FTC order by sharing user data without consent, including with Cambridge Analytica. A spokesperson for Sandberg stated that all work emails were preserved on Meta&#8217;s servers, dismissing the claims as baseless.<br \/>\nThe case follows recent remarks by Mark Zuckerberg blaming Sandberg for Meta\u2019s inclusivity policies and culture issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Meta, has been sanctioned by a Delaware judge for allegedly deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The emails, linked to a shareholder lawsuit, were reportedly sent from a personal Gmail account under a pseudonym. The lawsuit accuses Sandberg and former Meta board member Jeff Zients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59930,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59928\/revisions\/59930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}