{"id":10279,"date":"2018-12-09T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/how-the-star-of-sheryl-sandberg-dimmed\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T12:29:02","slug":"facebook-sheryl-sandberg-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/facebook-sheryl-sandberg-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: Sheryl Sandberg Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg seems to be the scapegoat for the mounting problems at Facebook, relating to its ethics. Once held out as\u00a0the golden girl of US business, she is now facing mounting criticism over data scandals\u00a0and particularly for the hiring of Washington lobbying firm<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> <a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Definers_Public_Affairs\">Definers<\/a> <\/span>a hard-nosed &#8220;dirt digging&#8221; research firm to investigate critics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">They have since cut ties with the firm but not before the damage was done. The hiring and subsequent stories it published were publically slated with The\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-FB_cuts_ties_27-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>George Soros&#8217;\u00a0<a title=\"Open Society Foundations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_Society_Foundations\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Open Society Foundation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0putting out a statement out that said the content was a deliberate strategy to distract from Facebook&#8217;s own scandals and that the methods threaten the very values underpinning our democracy. Even more damning was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/facebook-hired-firm-house-fake-news-shop-combat-pr-crisis-n936591\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">NBC News<\/span><\/a> story that alleged Definers had\u00a0its own an &#8220;in-house fake news shop&#8221;. So Facebook, while steeped in scandals regarding the Rusian involvement in the presidential election and the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, chose under\u00a0Sheryl Sandberg&#8217;s watch to hire their own fake news agency to try and make it all go away.<\/p>\n<p>There is no chance that she is the only one to blame, however as the second highest profile person in the firm she is the obvious sacrificial\u00a0lamb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg seems to be the scapegoat for the mounting problems at Facebook, relating to its ethics. Once held out as\u00a0the golden girl of US business, she is now facing mounting criticism over data scandals\u00a0and particularly for the hiring of Washington lobbying firm Definers a hard-nosed &#8220;dirt digging&#8221; research firm to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[301],"class_list":["post-10279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-facebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10281,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions\/10281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}