Sandberg said ‘I don’t know’ to 6 Facebook app-vetting gaps, video shows – PPC Land

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer from 2008 to 2022, told lawyers for the State of New Mexico that she did not know whether Facebook verified app developers’ identities, checked who owned their apps or required them to say how user data would be used between 2012 and 2018, according to a video deposition played to the jury in the state’s Facebook privacy trial on September 14, 2026. The New Mexico Department of Justice published the 1 hour, 28 minute recording on YouTube on September 28, 2026, three days after jurors found 26 of 29 Facebook statements misleading. In Short A video shows Sheryl Sandberg, who ran Facebook’s business for 14 years, answering a state lawyer’s questions about privacy promises, app developers and false content, and it was played to the jury that later found Facebook misled people. She defended the company’s line that it does not sell people’s data, said she was not the right person to explain how Facebook shared data with apps, and could not say whether basic checks on app makers existed. The testimony matters because her own public statements were among those the jury counted, and a judge has since turned those findings into a
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