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On Jan. 11, 2021, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg was interviewed by Reuters reporter Gina Chon for the Reuters NEXT conference. Though scheduled prior to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, her appearance became an opportunity to probe Facebook leadership on the actions the company had taken both before and after the Capitol riot, which was planned to a large degree on social media. In that interview, Chon asked if there was anything Facebook could have done sooner to prevent the attack. In response, Sandberg suggested that the events in D.C. were largely organized on other platforms, saying that they had acted aggressively to stop or reduce the reach of several online audiences engaged in the riots: The comment was controversial for several reasons, and Sandberg has a history of misrepresenting the truth about Facebook's actions and culpability in previous company scandals. As BuzzFeed News reported, whatever efforts Facebook putatively undertook to enforce a ban on violent rhetoric surrounding so-called Stop the Steal groups before the riot were far from comprehensive. Two days after the riot, the outlet reported finding over 66 such groups on Facebook. The statement, nonetheless, is correctly attributed to Sandberg.
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