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Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Meta, took the witness stand on Wednesday in a landmark antitrust trial, batting back assertions by government lawyers that the social network tried to illegally quash competition.
Lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission pressed Sandberg, who was second in command from 2008 to 2022, to explain an email chain from more than a decade ago in which executives disallowed the now-defunct Google+ social network and other rivals from advertising with the company, then known as Facebook.
Sandberg said…
