When we add even more firewood to an already quite heated cabinet, it seems that Meta will now investigate whether Sheryl SandbergFacebook’s current chief operating officer and former partner Bobby Kotick would break the company’s rules helps delete and hide negative posts about Activision Blizzard CEO on the social network, formerly, but apparently related to current lawsuits and allegations of sexual harassment by a developer.

This was shared by a new report from The Wall Street Journal, which would also discover it some other allegations, such as blackmailing the British media MailOnline. They reportedly followed a story based on allegations made by Kotick’s ex-girlfriend and the temporary injunction she received against him, but Sandberg and Kotick worked together on two different occasions, in 2016 and 2019, to create strategy to “persuade” them. not to inform about the existence of this order.

One unnamed source of the newspaper claims that Kotick “she told people that Mrs. Sandberg threatened MailOnline in 2016 that such an article, if published, could damage the intelligence organization’s business relationship with Facebook.«. A strategy that would obviously prove effective in this regard This subject has never seen the light of day.

A Meta spokesman denied that Sandberg had threatened MailOnline:Sheryl Sandberg never threatened MailOnline’s business relationship with Facebook to influence editorial decisions […] This story seeks to create connections that do not exist“.

However, the company is already investigating Sandberg’s actionsbecause if it is finally proven that she was directly involved in this effort to protect the CEO of Activision Blizzard, “it would have a negative effect on her reputation as a women’s advocate“.