Nobody said sociopath, that's your term. Sandberg was effectively co-CEO, in everything but title. Her and Zuckerberg had divided up responsibilities, it wasn'

Nobody said sociopath, that's your term. Sandberg was effectively co-CEO, in everything but title. Her and Zuckerberg had divided up responsibilities, it wasn't a matter of strategy vs operations i.e. CEO vs COO. That's pretty clear from articles on her. As long as Zuckerberg needed her to build up the company, which he was too inexperienced to do, that setup was fine. But at some point a king gets paranoid about having an obvious successor around, particularly as his confidence grows. So he's divided up her responsibilities among a wider group of underlings; he's not going to have another obvious successor around. I'd guess he's been taking responsibilities away from her for a while. As to loyalty, Sandberg's network etc, note that this article is about her wrongdoing, effectively attacking her reputation. These investigations have apparently been going on for a while. It's not even the first article about this that I've seen; you want to guess who's been feeding this information to the WSJ and others? With this kind of stuff sloshing around, who in Facebook's upper management is going to stand up and cry foul? Exactly nobody, that's who.