Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, speaks on stage during ‘Putting a Best Facebook Forward’ at Vanity Fair’s sixth annual summit for new establishment.
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Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, said Monday that the uprising at the U.S. Capitol last week was largely organized on other Internet services, not on Facebook.
“We have again taken down QAnon, Proud Boys, Stop the Steal, everything that was taken last week about possible violence,” Sandberg said in a live interview with Reuters. “Our enforcement is never perfect, so I’m sure there were more things on Facebook. I think these events were largely organized on platforms that did not have our ability to stop hate, did not have our standards and did not have us. transparency. ‘
But there were still many groups that could post on Facebook about the storm on the Capitol building before the riots last week. CNBC, for example, found that the Facebook group for the political action committee The Black Conservatives Fund had appealed to its 80,000 followers to march to the Capitol on January 5, the day before the riots. The group removed the post after a CNBC investigation.
Sandberg added that the company is still working to find and remove any mention related to the uprising. Sandberg’s comments come after Facebook announced last week that he would suspend President Donald Trump indefinitely, and at least until President-elect Joe Biden accepted the Oval Office.
“We have no plans to lift it,” Sandberg said. “It has shown that even a president is no more than the policies we have.”
Sandberg was also asked about her future with the company after the New York Times reported in July 2020 that she had been fired from the company after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a more practical approach to the relationship with lawmakers in Washington followed. This was a function that previously fell within Sandberg’s jurisdiction of the company.
“I stay,” Sandberg said, adding that she liked her job. “People like headlines about corporate drama, and I think it’s fair to say they especially like headlines about women’s sidelines, but I feel really happy that I got this job.”