Article 600NA Sheryl Sandberg’s influence reaches all of us. But it’s a troubling legacy | Stephanie Hare

Sheryl Sandberg’s influence reaches all of us. But it’s a troubling legacy | Stephanie Hare

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Stephanie Hare
from Technology | The Guardian on (#600NA)
From epic data mining to shocking failures of content moderation, Meta's COO passes on a vast clean-up job

If you are reading this, odds are that you are one of the 2.87 billion daily users of the products offered by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. If you are not using any of these products, you are connected to people who do use them. And this connects you to Sheryl Sandberg, who resigned last week from her role as Meta's chief operating officer.

Even if you have never met her, interacted directly with her or read her books on corporate feminism or bereavement, Sandberg has had an impact on your life. She's not the only reason that our data is tracked online, whether we use Meta's products or not. Many others have helped to create and exploit an entire industry that profits from our data. What's more, lawmakers and regulators worldwide have done little to stop this, in no small part because companies like the ones Sandberg helped run spend millions of dollars every year lobbying to prevent or water down any attempts at regulation.

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