Who needs cops when you’ve got bodyguards: Mark Zuckerberg spent $43M on security in three years while donating millions to woke groups who want to ABOLISH the police
- Facebook tycoon’s family foundation has donated $3 million PolicyLink, the organization behind DefundPolice.org, the New York Post reported since 2020
- The organization boasted of having played a part in stripping the Oakland Police Department’s budget of $18 million as it is hit by a crime wave
- Stil, Zuckerberg has spent millions for his own security detail
Facebook tycoon Mark Zuckerberg has spent $43 million on private security over the past three years whilst simultaneously donating millions to causes that want to ‘defund the police.’
Since 2020, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Zuckerberg’s family-run foundation, has donated $3 million to PolicyLink, the organization behind DefundPolice.org, the New York Post reported.
DefundPolice.org aims to ‘diminish the role of policing in communities and empower alternative visions for public safety.’
CZI, which Zuckerberg founded with his wife Priscilla Chan, has also reportedly donated more than $2.5 million to the anti-police group Solidaire, which has boasted about Oakland police losing $18 million in funding amid a surge in crime in the California city.
While Zuckerberg has funded anti-police efforts, his company has increased the amount of money it spends each year, now at $14 million, to make sure the Facebook founder is protected by a security force.
Facebook tycoon Mark Zuckerberg has spent $43 million on private security over the past three years
Zuckerberg is spotted arriving at California federal court in 2022 as he is accompanied by others
His family foundation has also donated $3million since 2020 to PolicyLink, the organization behind DefundPolice.org
Solidaire recently boasted of having played a part in stripping the Oakland Police Department’s budget of $18 million.
Residents in Oakland in recent months suffered more than 100 robberies in a single week and 50 in a tumultuous 72-hour period in May, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Oakland has seen a 22 percent increase in robberies over last year and an 18 percent increase in violent crime, from 211 incidents to 249, according to police data.
Many blame the rise in crime and homelessness in places like Oakland and San Francisco on lax law enforcement and generous assistance programs worth up to $687-per-month.
Meta – the Facebook parent company – has also increased its spending on Zuckerberg’s security to $14 million in 2023, up from $10 million over the last several years, according to a company filing.
The company’s CEO is permitted to use the money to pay for ‘additional personnel, equipment, services, residential improvement’ and other safety-related needs.
In 2021, Meta reportedly earmarked a total of $27 million for an ‘overall security program’ that ensured the safety of Zuckerberg, Chan and their three daughters.
Roughly $10 million of that was the ‘annual pretax allowance,’ while the rest reportedly covered Zuckerberg’s safe, private air travel.
CZI, which Zuckerberg founded with his wife Priscilla Chan (pictured) has also reportedly donated more than $2.5 million to Solidaire
Zuckerberg (pictured competing in Brazilian jiu jitsu) is set to take on Elon Musk in a ‘cage fight’
Zuckerberg has been seen becoming increasingly active, out running and mastering jiu-jitsu. The Facebook founder has been spotted out running with members of his large security detail.
He is set to face Twitter CEO Elon Musk in a ‘cage fight’ in Las Vegas or Rome in a bizarre Silicon Valley clash.
The arraignment has yet to be finalized, but the two tech moguls agreed to it while trading barbs on social media.
The pair are currently locked in a battle over Twitter’s future, as Musk struggles to defend his tweaks to the social-media site and Zuckerberg launched his alternative, Threads.
Zuckerberg has said Threads will aim to be a ‘friendly’ alternative to Twitter, which has ‘had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it.’
Threads has seen 70million sign-ups since its launch on Thursday.
Musk’s Twitter has undergone a series of changes since his $44billion purchase of the site in October. Musk has fired staff and changed policies for the site. His latest move, to limit the number of tweets people can see in a day, drew a sharp rebuke from its users.
