{"id":5445,"date":"2022-04-21T21:36:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/21\/sheryl-sandberg-allegedly-leant-on-news-site-to-drop-stories-about-ex-boyfriend\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T21:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T19:36:22","slug":"sheryl-sandberg-allegedly-leant-on-news-site-to-drop-stories-about-ex-boyfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/21\/sheryl-sandberg-allegedly-leant-on-news-site-to-drop-stories-about-ex-boyfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheryl Sandberg allegedly leant on news site to drop stories about ex-boyfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail dropped two stories detailing Activision\u2019s Bobby Kotich\u2019s abuse of an ex after threats by Meta executive, WSJ reports<\/p>\n<p>Sheryl Sandberg, the Meta executive, allegedly pressured the Daily Mail to drop unflattering stories about her then-boyfriend Bobby Kotick, the Activision Blizzard CEO, according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/sandberg-facebook-kotick-activision-blizzard-daily-mail-11650549074\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal reports that she persuaded the digital edition of the Mail not to run stories revealing that an ex-girlfriend of Kotick had obtained a temporary restraining order against him in 2014. Kotick reportedly said that Sandberg, who he dated for three years until 2019, told the Mail in 2016 that if the article were published, it could damage the outlet\u2019s relationship with Facebook. Sandberg allegedly contacted the Daily Mail in 2016 and 2019 to put a stop to the articles, and both times the stories never ran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/21\/sheryl-sandberg-meta-daily-mail-bobby-kotick-activision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c8d5fa140725b29a5caf6eebcada2cc0fd98af8c\/0_40_5644_3388\/master\/5644.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=46bb8f0652b7cc5c7e21f107f350a59b\" title=\"Sheryl Sandberg allegedly leant on news site to drop stories about ex-boyfriend\" \/>The Daily Mail dropped two stories detailing Activision\u2019s Bobby Kotich\u2019s abuse of an ex after threats by Meta executive, WSJ reports<br \/>\nSheryl Sandberg, the Meta executive, allegedly pressured the Daily Mail to drop unflattering stories about her then-boyfriend Bobby Kotick, the Activision Blizzard CEO, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.<br \/>\nThe Journal reports that she persuaded the digital edition of the Mail not to run stories revealing that an ex-girlfriend of Kotick had obtained a temporary restraining order against him in 2014. Kotick reportedly said that Sandberg, who he dated for three years until 2019, told the Mail in 2016 that if the article were published, it could damage the outlet\u2019s relationship with Facebook. Sandberg allegedly contacted the Daily Mail in 2016 and 2019 to put a stop to the articles, and both times the stories never ran. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail dropped two stories detailing Activision\u2019s Bobby Kotich\u2019s abuse of an ex after threats by Meta executive, WSJ reports Sheryl Sandberg, the Meta executive, allegedly pressured the Daily Mail to drop unflattering stories about her then-boyfriend Bobby Kotick, the Activision Blizzard CEO, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The Journal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/21\/sheryl-sandberg-allegedly-leant-on-news-site-to-drop-stories-about-ex-boyfriend\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheryl Sandberg allegedly leant on news site to drop stories about ex-boyfriend<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}