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Facebook's Sandberg Reassures Advertisers After Pause by a ‘Few’
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Sheryl Sandberg discusses the social-media company’s data privacy efforts and Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership.
Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg outlined the ways she’s responding to a data-privacy crisis, saying for the first time that some advertisers have curtailed spending and acknowledging her team has a long way to go to reassure wary customers.
“We’ve seen a few advertisers pause with us and they’re asking the same questions that other people are asking,” Sandberg said Thursday in an interview at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. “They want to make sure they can use data and use it safely.”