Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc.
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Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was reportedly part of a pressure campaign to prevent the Daily Mail from publishing an unfavorable report about Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, according to a Wall Street Journal article published Thursday.
Facebook is now reviewing whether Sandberg violated the company’s rules, the report said.
Sandberg and Kotick were dating at the time that she reportedly contacted the digital edition of the Mail in 2016 and 2019 about shelving a story about a temporary restraining order a former girlfriend of Kotick’s obtained against him in 2014. The Journal cited unnamed sources involved in the article and the campaign to stop it.
Sandberg and Kotick reportedly worked with a team including Facebook and Activision employees to devise a strategy to convince the Mail not to publish the article. Sandberg’s advisors were worried it could refl