"The documents emanate from a court case against Facebook by the app developer Six4Three in California, and reveal that Sandberg considered European data protection legislation a “critical” threat. The documents include details of how Facebook:

- Lobbied politicians across Europe in a strategic operation to head off “overly restrictive” GDPR legislation.

- Threatened to withhold investment from countries unless they supported or passed Facebook-friendly laws."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment