Meta inquiry into Sheryl Sandberg broader than beforehand recognized

Sheryl Sandberg, the outgoing chief working officer of Meta, is reportedly dealing with a broader inquiry into her use of firm sources than beforehand recognized.

Attorneys investigating her have interviewed a number of staff for the reason that fall and are inspecting her use of company personnel to help with private initiatives courting again a number of years, the Wall Road Journal reported Friday.

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The investigation is attempting to find out the extent to which she leaned on company staffers to assist along with her ladies's advocacy group, Lean In, and to assist her promote her second e-book, Choice B: Dealing with Adversity, Constructing Resilience, and Discovering Pleasure, in accordance with the report. Different factors of inquiry that had been beforehand reported embody her use of Meta sources to prepare her wedding ceremony and to attempt to suppress unfavorable tales about her former boyfriend.

“Sheryl didn't inappropriately use firm sources in reference to the planning of her wedding ceremony,” a spokeswoman for Sandberg mentioned final week.

In the beginning of June, Sandberg introduced she was stepping down from her submit at Meta after 14 years. In personal, she has informed confidants that she was burned out and apprehensive about tackling chief govt officer Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse initiatives, in accordance with the report, which additionally famous sources who mentioned Sandberg had been irritated by the inquiry, however it didn't inspire her resignation.

The Washington Examiner reached out to a Meta consultant for remark.