Mark Zuckerberg investigated Sheryl Sandberg’s use of Meta resources for wedding before shock exit, report claims

“None of this has anything to do with her personal decision to leave,” a Meta spokeswoman said.

reported that the wedding probe was a byproduct of another investigation into Sandberg.

In 2016 and 2019, Sandberg pressured the news outlet Daily Mail into dropping a , whom she was in a relationship with at the time.

Meta that Sandberg threatened Daily Mail or meddled in their editorial decisions.

covered the story closely and wrote "Some executives inside Facebook assert that any intervention by Ms. Sandberg over a news article, no matter her specific words, could well be perceived as a threat."

Operationally, Sandberg has not been close to Meta's top priorities.

She has not been involved in the company's initiative to grow the metaverse.

Sources told the WSJ that Sandberg feels like a "punching bag" at Meta.

“She sees herself as someone who has been targeted, been tarred as a woman executive in a way that would not happen to a man. Gendered or not, she’s sick of it,” a Sandberg confidant told .

Sandberg is engaged to marry Tom Bernthal - the CEO of a marketing agency and the brother of actor Jon Bernthal.

Sandberg spent 14 years as a Meta executive and has been credited with developing Meta's advertising-based business model, which supplies the company with hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.