Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says He Has No Plans to Step Down as Chairman
CEO calls Sheryl Sandberg an ‘important partner’ overseeing Facebook’s efforts to tackle big problems
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Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against calls for him to step down as chairman and said he hoped to continue working with his longtime chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, in a TV interview on Tuesday that addressed a myriad of controversies shrouding the social-media giant.
In an interview with CNN, during which he sometimes stammered, Mr. Zuckerberg said stepping down as chairman in the near term is “not the plan” after some big shareholders proposed to push him out of that role following a...