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A new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Facebook spent more than $23 million last year on security for CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook’s annual reviews of company security “identified specific threats to Mr. Zuckerberg,” according to a proxy statement filed Friday. “He is synonymous with Facebook, and as a result, negative sentiment regarding our company is directly associated with, and often transferred to, Mr. Zuckerberg,” the proxy says of the Facebook CEO’s role. The company’s annual review of security programs showed the costs of protecting Zuckerberg and his family rose in 2020 mainly due to COVID-19 travel protocols, increased security coverage during the 2020 US election season “and other periods with increased security risk,” as well as rising costs for security personnel. The “all other compensation” section of the proxy statement shows Facebook spent $23 million for personal security at Zuckerberg’s residences and for travel for him and his family. The CEO also got an additional $10 million to put toward security personnel and other security costs. The cost of base security was up to $13.4 million last year,  » Read More

The Echo Press will be LIVE at the Polar Plunge, which is set take place Sunday, April 11, at 1 p.m. The Alexandria Polar Plunge will be held at Arrowwood Resort and Conference Center on Lake Darling. There will be no pre check-in this year. Everyone must check in on the day of the event. Those taking part in the plunge are asked to arrive 15 minutes before their scheduled Plunge time. Parking is available on site (no shuttles due to COVID-19 restrictions). This year's event is also a bit different as it will be a run-in, run-out event instead of participants jumping in a designated spot. Money raised from the event goes to Special Olympics Minnesota. To watch live, check out the Echo Press Facebook page starting at about 1 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday, April 11.  » Read More

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Friday it is converting a part of its Menlo Park headquarters into a vaccination site, joining the government effort to speed up the vaccination drive in the United States.For this initiative, the company is teaming up with Ravenswood Family Health Centre, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a post.“We’re also teaming up with the State of California and local nonprofits to support mobile vaccination clinics in four of the state’s hardest hit regions,” wrote Sandberg.Earlier this year, the social media company decided to launch a tool to give people in the United States information about where to get COVID-19 vaccines and added a COVID-19 information area to its photo-sharing site, Instagram.Reporting by Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyurfor-phone-onlyfor-tablet-portrait-upfor-tablet-landscape-upfor-desktop-upfor-wide-desktop-up  » Read More

A giant digital sign is seen at Facebook's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California, on October 23, 2019.Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty ImagesFacebook is converting part of its Menlo Park, California, headquarters into a public Covid-19 vaccination site starting Saturday, COO Sheryl Sandberg said in a post Friday.A spokesperson said the company hopes to help vaccinate up to 10,000 people in the first several weeks of its effort.Facebook is partnering with the Ravenswood Family Health Network to roll out the vaccines. The company is also partnering with the cities of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park to provide transportation to and from vaccine appointments on the campus.Sandberg said Facebook is also teaming up with the California government and nine nonprofits to support mobile vaccinations across the state, including in the Central Valley, Inland Empire, San Diego and South Central Los Angeles."As more COVID-19 vaccines roll out across the country, we are finally seeing glimmers of hope,  » Read More

Facebook was running ads featuring voter fraud conspiracies up until Wednesday. The ads were paid for by Restoration Action, a conservative super PAC. The ads echo election fraud conspiracies that former President Trump has pushed. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. As recently as this Wednesday, Facebook was running ads featuring voter fraud conspiracy language like, "Every illegal vote cancels a legitimate vote." The ads were from the conservative super PAC Restoration Action, a group that paid Facebook over $380,000 to run ads "about social issues, elections or politics" between April 7 and May 7. The vast majority of those ads focused on Democrat-led election reform legislation that intends to expand voter registration, voting by mail, and early voting, as well as strengthen election security systems. The legislation has already successfully passed through the House, and must now pass through the Senate. Republican leaders have repeatedly attacked the legislation, and former President Donald Trump referred to it as "a monster" during a speech in March.  » Read More

by: Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Apr 8, 2021 / 12:48 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 8, 2021 / 12:48 PM CDT FILE – This March 29, 2018, file photo shows the Facebook logo on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York’s Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (NEXSTAR) – On Tuesday, Facebook addressed reports that 533 million user of the social media site had their data stolen in a “scraping” incident that happened back in 2019. In a Facebook blog post, the tech company said it was aware of the issue and that the stolen data — including phone numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, email addresses — was a result not of hacking, but of “scraping.” “It is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019,” the blog post reads. Scraping is a “common tactic,” Facebook said, which “often relies on automated software to lift public information from the internet and can end up being distributed in online forums,” as was the case with the recently reported 2019 hack.  » Read More

by: Johan Sheridan Posted: Apr 7, 2021 / 12:23 PM EDT / Updated: Apr 7, 2021 / 12:51 PM EDT This Monday, July 30, 2019 photo shows an update information of Facebook application on a mobile phone displayed at a store in Chicago. The FBI is looking for outside contractors to monitor social media for potential threats, setting up a possible conflict with Facebook and other companies over privacy. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky) ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Patris Derville, 22, of Cohoes was sentenced last week for threatening to shoot someone on social media. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he’ll serve 13 months in prison. The case against Derville accused him of transmitting threats of violence across state lines. He pleaded guilty to sending a Facebook Live video to a victim where he threatened to shoot them. He posted the video target the victim. Authorities say no firearm was displayed in the video. They said they will not release any information about which state lines were crossed.  » Read More

Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say they use social media overall (77% and 68%, respectively), according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted Jan. 25-Feb. 8, 2021. There are also notable differences in the shares of Democrats and Republicans who use particular platforms. A majority of Americans on both sides of the political aisle say they use Facebook and YouTube. Roughly seven-in-ten Democrats (72%) and Republicans (69%) – including independents who lean toward each party – say they ever use Facebook. And 85% of Democrats report using YouTube, compared with a slightly smaller share of Republicans (79%). Still, for several other sites and apps measured in this survey, there are large gaps in use by political party. For example, about half of Democrats (49%) report using Instagram, 19 percentage points more than the share of Republicans who say the same (30%). Democrats are also about 10 points or more likely than Republicans to say they ever use Twitter, WhatsApp, LinkedIn or Reddit. To better understand Americans’ use of social media,  » Read More

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1of12Yuliet Colon pulls her rolling grocery cart as she walks home after after a visit to the agro market in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 2, 2021. Colon helps Cubans cope with shortages exacerbated by the new coronavirus pandemic with Facebook posts of culinary creations designed around what is actually available at the market.Ramon Espinosa/APShow MoreShow Less 2of12A makeshift light switch plate is decorated with an image of baked goods in the home of Yuliet Colon, a 39-year-old mother of two and a contributor to the Facebook page, ”Recipes from the Heart," in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 2, 2021.Ramon Espinosa/APShow MoreShow Less 3of12 4of12Yuliet Colon puts on her apron as she prepares to cook a dish in her kitchen in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 2, 2021. Colon found for herself and many Cubans a solution that combines ingenuity with the innovative use of the Internet on the island and became a contributor to the Facebook page “Recipes from the Heart,” with tips, ideas and tricks to get ahead with what items are actually available at the market.Ramon Espinosa/APShow MoreShow Less 5of12Contributor Yuliet Colon takes pictures of ingredients to upload to the “Recipes from the Heart” facebook page for her latest post,…