Asked about the situation, Sandberg acknowledged the importance of independence in the media, before saying that Thiel "did what he did on his own, not as a Facebook board member. We didn't know about it....and you should talk to him." Recently Facebook faced uproar after another board member, Marc Andreessen connected India's view of net neutrality to anti-colonialism, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed with a letter. According to Sandberg, we probably shouldn't expect a similar response here. In the case of Andreessen's statement she said it could have been viewed as speaking for the company, while Thiel's activities are clearly "not a Facebook thing."