Sept 30 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) mentioned on Friday its board had accepted offering private safety providers to former Chief Working Officer Sheryl Sandberg, citing “persevering with threats to her security”.
The corporate, nonetheless, didn’t elaborate on the threats that Sandberg, one of the highly effective girls in Silicon Valley, faces. It expects to proceed to pay for safety providers at her residences and through her private journey from Oct. 1 until June 30 subsequent yr.
Sandberg, an in depth affiliate of Meta’s Chief Govt Mark Zuckerberg, mentioned in June she would depart the social media big after a 14-year stint when she led the corporate’s often-criticized ads-based enterprise mannequin.
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Underneath Sandberg, the corporate was additionally buffeted by revelations in 2018 that U.Ok. consultancy Cambridge Analytica had improperly acquired information on thousands and thousands of its U.S. customers to focus on election promoting.
The identical yr, U.N. human rights investigators mentioned the usage of Fb had performed a key position in spreading hate speech that fueled violence towards the Rohingya group in Myanmar.
Sandberg will now not be an worker after Sept. 30 however will stay on its board, the Fb-owner mentioned in a regulatory submitting.
Beforehand, Meta has spent closely on the safety of its prime executives. Final yr, the corporate spent $26.8 million for the private safety and personal plane of Zuckerberg, it revealed in April.
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Reporting by Niket Nishant in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Shailesh Kuber and Sriraj Kalluvila
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