Stefan Mileschin

Sandberg apparently tried to protect Kotick

Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is in hot water after it is claimed she tried to shut down a news story involving her boyfriend, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick.

According to the Wall Street Journal the UK Daily Mail was working to reveal a temporary restraining order against Kotick that a former girlfriend put in place in 2014.

In 2016, Martin Clarke, then editor in chief of the MailOnline, told employees that the publication wouldn’t be running an article about the restraining order, and that he had heard from Sandberg.

When the publication was once again looking into the matter, Ms. Sandberg emailed Jonathan Harmsworth, also known by his aristocratic title Viscount Rothermere, the great-grandson of the Daily Mail’s founder and chairman of its parent company, with concerns about the potential article. She wrote that she appreciated the Mail’s “commitment to getting the facts right,” the people said.

Lord Rothermere, who has a policy of not getting involved in editorial matters, referred the issue to Clarke. Clarke and Sandberg exchanged emails in 2019, according to a person familiar with the exchange.

The MailOnline relies on Facebook for a portion of its traffic. In 2010, Facebook delivered 10 per cent of MailOnline’s UK traffic.

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