Facebook’s Sandberg Sanctioned in Delaware for Lost Emails (1)

A Delaware court sanctioned former Facebook director Sheryl Sandberg for intentionally deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

“Because Sandberg selectively deleted items from her Gmail account, it is likely that the most sensitive and probative exchanges are gone,” Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster said in opinion Tuesday.

The decision will make it harder for Sandberg to defend herself against in a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit linked to a $5 billion fine Facebook—now a unit of Meta Platforms Inc.—paid the US government to resolve a privacy probe into its business with Cambridge Analytica, which also had been ...