Sheryl Sandberg will get private safety companies as she leaves Meta By Reuters

(Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc stated on Friday its board had authorised offering private safety companies 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 ladies in Silicon Valley, faces. It expects to proceed to pay for safety companies 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, stated 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.

Beneath Sandberg, the corporate was additionally buffeted by revelations in 2018 that U.Okay. consultancy Cambridge Analytica had improperly acquired information on hundreds of thousands of its U.S. customers to focus on election promoting.

The identical yr, U.N. human rights investigators stated using Fb (NASDAQ:) had performed a key function in spreading hate speech that fueled violence towards the Rohingya neighborhood in Myanmar.

Sandberg will now not be an worker after Sept. 30 however will stay on its board, the Fb-owner stated 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 non-public safety and personal plane of Zuckerberg, it revealed in April.