The New Republic: Sheryl Sandberg, Resign

Hours after President Trump falsely claimed victory in November’s election, having claimed for weeks that the election was a fraud and Democrats would try to steal it, a Facebook group was created, called “Stop the Steal.” Within a day, it had grown to 300,000 members, reported Shayan Sardarizadeh and Jessica Lussenhop at BBC Monitoring and BBC News Washington. Many of the posts repeated Trump’s lies; some argued for “civil war.” Later that day, Facebook pulled the group, “but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.” In its absence, dozens more groups sprang up. On November 20, Sarah Emerson at OneZero noted that two Stop the Steal Facebook groups, totaling more than 100,000 members, were still active. These were some of the earliest, most public stages of planning what became the deadly mob at the Capitol on January 6.

“I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, and don’t have our standards and don’t have our transparency,” Sheryl Sandberg told the Reuters Next conference on Monday, as the fallout from the Capitol riot was still unfolding. This is not the first time Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer, has performed this duty—the reasonable public face of the private company with an outsize power over the public square."

"Sandberg’s words follow a familiar pattern in all Facebook P.R. efforts: They simultaneously embrace and downplay the company’s power. Yet, as Vice reported, “at the very moment Sandberg made these comments, there were at least 60 ‘Stop the Steal’ groups active on Facebook, some with tens of thousands of members and millions of interactions.” The same day Sandberg minimized Facebook’s role in service of the armed people who tried to take the Capitol, people who claimed responsibility for organizing the mob were using Facebook and Instagram to plan more of them."

It's time for her to Lean Out!

They need to lead the deprogramming effort and take responsibility for all the fake conspiracy they propagate.

She'll just use this to strengthen her brand as an example of sexism

"at the very moment Sandberg made these comments, there were at least 60 ‘Stop the Steal’ groups active on Facebook"

THIS is the type of crap she has gotten away with over and over and never gets called out on it. I am so happy that people are starting to challenge her bulls*%# after people eating it up for years like she was some messiah.

"some with tens of thousands of members and millions of interactions."

SMH.

Usually when people interview her I am screaming at the t.v. because I can't stand how much she gets away with. Nobody else would get the kind of pass she gets for all the atrocities on her hands.

She makes Imelda Marcos look like a girl scout.