TOBY SHAPSHAK: Facebook’s smoking gun
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg e-mailed her boss Mark Zuckerberg: ‘We need your approval to move forward’
27 January 2022 - 05:00
If schadenfreude is your drug of choice and you despise Facebook, this has been a good month. Never has a corporation grown so powerful, or been so inept that it caused its own downfall. Hubris by another Silicon Valley tech-bru name, if you will.
In 2018 Google and Facebook — now known as Meta — concluded what Texas attorney-general Ken Paxton calls an "illegal price-fixing agreement" over digital advertising...
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