The now former director of operations of the social media giant has praised her fourteen years “alongside Mark” Zuckerberg; An “honor and the privilege of a life,” she said.
Le Monde with AFP
“After fourteen years, I’m going to leave Meta”, said on Wednesday 1
She assured that these years “alongside Mark” Zuckerberg, the boss and founder of the company, had been “the honor and the privilege of a life”, while the Californian group is widely criticized by the policies and civil society for its economic model.
“It’s the end of an era. (…) Work by your side, I will miss it every day, but I am happy to count you among my friends for life. Thank you for everything you have Made for me and my family, for our company, and for millions of people around the world. You are a star, “praised Mr. Zuckerberg, in a response comment.
Meta told the France-Presse (AFP) agency that Javi Olivan would be the new operations director, but Mr. Zuckerberg said that he does not intend to replace the post of Sheryl Sandberg as is. “I think Meta has reached the stadium where it is logical for our product and our different activities to be more integrated with each other,” he said.
the most powerful woman of the “Tech”
Sheryl Sandberg is a leading figure in Silicon Valley and has often been described in the press as the most powerful woman in “Tech”. Debumnated in 2008 from Google as a rising star in the sector, she has become a star.
Mark Zuckerberg has established a personal relationship with her as real “number two”. And him delegated the tasks he did not affect, in particular the development of advertising activity, which M Me Sandberg had structured at Google.
In difficulty and without an economical model when he arrived, Facebook turned into an overpowered advertising machine, succeeding in his moult to mobile media. M Sandberg also contributed, by supervising communication and public affairs activities, to Facebook a leading company, maintaining good relations with the administration of Barack Obama.
His name associated with several scandals
But since then, the Sheryl Sandberg star has gradually pale. His name was associated with many scandals and controversies that the world leader in social networks had to face. As in the Cambridge Analytica affair in which millions of Facebook profiles from Americans were, in 2018, induced by a Donald Trump’s digital campaign provider.
Or accusations accusing Facebook for having made himself an accomplice of the violence against the Muslim minority Rohingya in Burma, having let prosper messages of hatred. Or the distribution, at the end of 2020, by the Frances Haugen whistleblower of internal documents highlighting the faults of the moderation of the social network outside the United States.
“The debate around social networks has changed so much since their beginnings that it has become unrecognizable. To say that it has not always been easy is an understatement,” writes M me Sandberg In a Facebook ticket on Wednesday. The announcement is therefore not a huge surprise, but it was seen by the markets like bad news for Meta, whose latest results were not good: its title lost 2.50 %on Wednesday.