Sheryl Sandberg, COO on Facebook, speaks on stage during “Putting a Best Facebook Forward” at the sixth annual Summit of the new Vanity Fair.
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said Monday that the US Chapter uprising last week was largely organized on other Internet services, not Facebook.
“We have eliminated QAnon, Proud Boys, Stop the Steal again, anything that happened in connection with possible violence last week,” Sandberg said in a live interview with Reuters. “Our application is never perfect, so I’m sure there were other things on Facebook. I think that these events were largely organized on platforms that do not have our ability to stop hatred, do not have our standards and do not have our transparency. “
But there were still a lot of groups that managed to post on Facebook about the assault on the Chapter building before the riots last week. For example, CNBC discovered that the Facebook group for the political action committee The Black Conservatives Fund asked its 80,000 followers to go 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 continues to work to find and remove any mention of the insurrection. Sandberg’s comments come after Facebook announced last week that it will suspend President Donald Trump for an indefinite period of time and at least until President-elect Joe Biden takes over the Oval Office.
“We have no plans to raise it,” Sandberg said. “This has shown that not even a president is above 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 was excluded from the company after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a more practical approach to relationships. company with Washington lawmakers. This was a function that previously came under the jurisdiction of Sandberg.
“I’m staying,” Sandberg said, adding that he loves his job. “People love headlines about corporate drama, and I think it’s fair to say that I especially love headlines about eliminating women, but I’m extremely lucky to have this job.”