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By Barbara Ortutay and Michael LiedtkeJune 2, 2022 — 7.20amSheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, is stepping down. Sandberg has served as chief operating officer at the social media giant for 14 years. She joined from Google in 2008, four years before Facebook went public.“When I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years. Fourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life,” Sandberg wrote on her Facebook page.Sheryl Sandberg is standing down as Meta COO but will remain on the company board.Credit:BloombergSandberg has led Facebook — now Meta’s — advertising business and was responsible for nurturing it from its infancy into an over $US100 billion ($139 billion)-a-year powerhouse. She’s leaving Meta later this year and will continue to serve on the company’s board.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his own Facebook post that Javier Olivan will serve as Meta’s new COO,  » Read More

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, is stepping down, according to a post Wednesday on her Facebook page. Sandberg has served as chief operating officer at the social media giant for 14 years. She joined from Google in 2008, four years before Facebook went public. Meta did not immediately respond to a message for comment. “When I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years. Fourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life,” Sandberg wrote on her Facebook page. She did not say what she planned to do. Sandberg has led Facebook — now Meta’s — advertising business and was responsible for nurturing it from its infancy into an over $100 billion-a-year powerhouse. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his own Facebook post that he doesn’t plan to replace Sandberg in the company’s existing structure. Javier Olivan will serve as Meta’s new COO. Zuckerberg said this “this role will be different from what Sheryl has done.  » Read More

Editor’s note: The following story contains profanity. Zionsville Mayor Emily Styron expressed her frustration about gun violence in the United States in a profanity-filled Facebook tirade last week following a school shooting in Texas that took the lives of 19 children. Guy Relford, an attorney and host of the WIBC 93.1 FM radio program “The Gun Guy,” posted a screenshot of her Facebook comments Tuesday afternoon on Twitter. Styron’s comments were written late last week during a conversation about gun-ownership rights involving several individuals on the Facebook page of Robert Goodman Jewelers, which had opened the thread by asking for political change and showing support for gun-free spaces. Styron responded to a Facebook user named Joel Bardach by writing, “F— you. I am so sick and tired of the stupid, useless rhetoric by jack asses like you when it comes to gun regulation. F—ing sick and tired of mass murders OUR F—ING CHILDREN… it’s time for the majority who know that gun permits and banning automatic weapons is COMMON F—ING SENSE.  » Read More

“In actuality, none of these was erroneous, let alone a basis for granting Palin a new trial,” the judge said. Rakoff wrote that regardless of her post-trial motions, Palin was required at a trial earlier this year to show that an error in a published editorial was motivated by actual malice — a requirement in libel lawsuits involving public figures. “And the striking thing about the trial here was that Palin, for all her earlier assertions, could not in the end introduce even a speck of such evidence,” he said. Lawyers for Palin declined to comment on Rakoff’s ruling. A spokesperson for the Times, Charlie Stadtlander, said in a statement, “We are pleased to see the court’s decision, and remain confident that the judge and jury decided the case fairly and correctly.” The libel lawsuit by Palin, a one-time Republican vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska, centered on the newspaper’s 2017 editorial falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting, which Palin asserted damaged her reputation and career.  » Read More

May 31, 2022 | 9:15 AM Learfield Staff Writer, State News Lake Delton officials call a Facebook post about ambulance staffing levels in the area “factually untrue.” The information from the Delton-Dells Professional Paramedics union was labeled an “urgent safety message.” It claimed staffing reductions are affecting ambulance coverage. The assistant counsel of the village, Ben LeTendre, says that staffing levels this year are the same as they were last year at this time. LeTendre says there have been only two resignations. Three months ago the same Facebook page alleged there were instances of workplace harassment involving Lake Delton Police Chief Daniel Hardman. The chief has been reinstated.  » Read More

A smartphone with Facebook's logo is seen in front of displayed Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration taken October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File PhotoRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMay 31 (Reuters) - Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) will use Broadcom Inc's (AVGO.O) custom chips to build its metaverse hardware, becoming the chipmaker's next billion-dollar ASIC customer, analysts at J.P. Morgan said on Tuesday.ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips will drive $2 billion to $2.5 billion in revenue for Broadcom this year, helped by its deals with Meta and partnerships with Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O), the analysts said."We believe these wins are primarily at 5 nanometre and 3 nanometre and will be used to power Meta's metaverse hardware architecture that it will deploy over the next few years," analyst Harlan Sur said.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMeta is investing heavily in the metaverse - a virtual space where people interact, work and play - by adding new features to hardware devices that serve as access points to the virtual world.  » Read More

LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. (WTVG) - An Adrian man is dead after a crash in Lenawee County on Memorial Day.It happened Monday morning just before 8:30 a.m.According to the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office, a 42-year-old man from Adrian died after a head-on crash near Ridge Hwy. and Pennington Road. His identity was not released.Authorities said a vehicle traveling northbound hit a southbound vehicle. The driver of the southbound vehicle was killed while the driver of the northbound vehicle, who is from the Romulus area, sustained non-life-threatening injuries.The Ridgeway Fire Department also responded to the scene. The Lenawee County sheriff’s office continues to investigate the crash.See a spelling or grammar error in our story? Please include the title when you click here to report it.Copyright 2022 WTVG. All rights reserved.  » Read More

Jeff Cercone  |  PolitiFact.comViral Facebook post: "More people die from hands, fists, feet, than rifles.”PolitiFact's ruling: Mostly TrueHere's why: In the midst of the gun control debate, a data-laden graphic shared on Facebook posits this: rifles are nothing compared to human brawn."More people die from hands, fists, feet, than rifles. Guess we should ban limbs now…," reads the May 25 post. Underneath, a graphic titled "Number of murder victims in the Unites States in 2020 by weapon used" shows rifle deaths at 455 and deaths from "personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.)" as 662. The post includes a link to a website called Statista.The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.FBI data from 2020 does show that more people died from injuries sustained from other people’s fists, feet and hands than from rifles. But there’s a little more you should know about that data before you use it to draw conclusions.  » Read More

DEAR ABBY: “Dana” has been my best friend since 1995. We did so many things together, until she had gastric bypass surgery three years ago. Mind you, Dana was never fat. She may have been overweight, but she was never morbidly obese. She never participated in any of the fun sports I did, such as mud/obstacle course runs or fun 5Ks. Her lack of participation wasn’t due to her weight; she just said it “wasn’t for her.” After Dana lost some weight from her surgery, her mindset changed. She started making repeated snide remarks to me about my weight. I have some joint issues that are genetic. She said, “Maybe your weight doesn’t help.” Eventually, we stopped doing much together. Lately she has been posting, “Does anyone want to participate?” in mud runs and 5Ks that I do — but she won’t ask me. Many people have pointed out that Dana has been copying my life for some time now. We decided to test that theory by purposely posting certain things on Facebook.  » Read More

Facebook Facebook users have taken to other social media platforms such as the microblogging site Twitter to complain about the sudden disappearance of dark mode support. New Delhi: Meta-owned Facebook`s dark mode interface for iOS platform has reportedly disappeared for several users. According to 9to5Mac, the dark mode option in Facebook for iOS has disappeared without explanation. While this is likely a bug, the tech giant has not acknowledged the issue or provided a timeline for a fix. Facebook users have taken to other social media platforms such as the microblogging site Twitter to complain about the sudden disappearance of dark mode support. This includes Facebook`s support for the system-wide dark mode toggle in iOS, as well as the in-app dark mode toggle that used to be available in the "Settings" menu of the Facebook app itself. What this means is that not only will Facebook no longer respect your system-wide dark mode preferences, but there's also no option to manually enable dark mode directly in the Facebook app,  » Read More