Sandberg Challenged Over Meta Business Moves During FTC Trial

Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Meta Platforms Inc., faced sharp questioning from the US Federal Trade Commission as its second witness in a trial to break up the social media giant.

Sandberg, who left Meta in 2022 after more than 14 years as Mark Zuckerberg’s No. 2, was Meta’s senior-most business leader at the time the company acquired both Instagram and WhatsApp, giving her key insight into its strategy. The FTC argues that those deals — completed in 2012 and 2014, respectively — gave Meta a monopoly on the social networking industry and should be undone.