A Delaware judge has sanctioned Sheryl Sandberg, Meta's former COO and board member, for deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

Meta Platforms' former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was sanctioned by a judge on Tuesday for deleting emails related to litigation over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, despite being told to preserve the messages.

A Delaware court sanctioned former Facebook director Sheryl Sandberg for intentionally deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

Sheryl Sandberg, former Chief Operating Officer of Meta Platforms, has been fined by a judge for deleting emails relevant to a lawsuit related to Facebook 's Cambridge Analytica data breach. Sandberg deleted the communications despite being instructed to preserve them.