One of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley is leaving

In January 2019, Sheryl Sandberg took a stage in Munich and defended a company that was in deep crisis at the time. In the previous months, it had become increasingly clear what a dubious role Facebook had played during the 2016 American presidential election campaign. Propaganda teams controlled from Russia and a British data company called Cambridge Analytica had spread lies and hate on the platform. Facebook didn't want to admit this for a long time.