Breaking up Facebook won’t solve issues of security, privacy & data portability: Sheryl Sandberg

SAN FRANCISCO: As the chorus grows to break up Facebook, the social networking platform’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has said that it won’t serve any purpose.

“You could break us up, you could break other tech companies up, but you actually don’t address the underlying issues people are concerned about,” she told CNBC in an interview on Friday.

“People are concerned about election security, content, privacy and data portability,” Sandberg added.

Several US Senators have called for breaking up the social network amid repeated data breaches and privacy violations on the platform.