Sheryl Sandberg, long Facebook’s No 2 exec, steps down


Zuboff calls Sandberg the ‘Typhoid Mary’ of surveillance capitalism, the term for profiting off the collection of data from social media users’ online behaviour, preferences, shared data and relationships. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Sheryl Sandberg, the No 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, who helped turn its business from startup to digital advertising empire while also taking blame for some of its biggest missteps, is stepping down.

Sandberg has served as chief operating officer at the social media giant for 14 years. She joined from Google in 2008, four years before Facebook went public.

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