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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she'd acted on her own, I'd say this isn't much of a story (even though I'm not a Sandberg fan and despise FB).

But if she involved FB staff? Problematic.[/quote]

:roll: She wasn't acting on her own. She's the most powerful person at Facebook, a media company which basically controls journalism engagement. She's an unethical thug.[/quote]

Nah, they really don't influence engagement the way they used to.

People try to spike stories every day, and this is the Daily Mail we're talking about.

This is not as big a deal as you'd clearly like it to be.[/quote]

Oh, anyone can just randomly call up News Corp / Daily Mail execs and editors and get through and successfully pressure them to spike negative stories about their private life? Yeah, sure. She was successful because of her power at the top of FB, period. It is deeply unethical, unprofessional, an abuse of power, and it obviously wasn't her first rodeo.[/quote]

I work in media. People with far, far lower profiles than Sandberg try to spike stories all the time and yes, execs and editors get involved.

I'm not at all defending what she did, but it's not unusual and if you think this scenario only happened because she's FB, you're incorrect.

The abuse of power lies in her involvement of FB staff on her personal issue.[/quote]

+100. She used corporate resources for personal gain not for the benefit of the company. Arguably that could also be the case if she threatened the publication with adverse publicity on FB platforms. [/quote]

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