the cdc is warning significant flu. the agency recommending people get vaccinated now as cases of the flu spike around the country. they say it takes two weeks for the flu shot to kick in. so far 11 kids have died from the flu this season record breaking 80,000 people died from the flu last season. you still have time to get the flu shot. mark zuckerberg slammed over end of the year message. we fundamentally altered our d.n.a. to focus more on preventing harm in all our services and we ve systematically shifted a large portion of our company to work on preventing harm. tone deaf after several privacy scandals last year. krispy kreme is consoling a police department after a delivery truck goes up in flames. the company offering to send treats to officers in lexington, kentucky, tweet went viral. department posting pictures
a warm and happy new year to you both. despite the string of privacy scandals that plagued facebook in 2018 mark zuckerberg applauded the company in a year end facebook post saying, quote, the platform is in the right direction, quote, we are very different company today than we were in 2016 or a year ago. we fundamentally altered our dna to focus more on preventing of analytical scandal and other privacy related revelations, some facebook users and people on social media are saying too little too late, stockton senator you have to be kidding, he s proud of what? his bank account database selling? another person saying congress hasn t punished him, but those
topping the list of least trusted tech companies after a year filled with privacy scandals. a new survey by media firm says 40% of people don t trust the platform with their personal information. 8% surveyed don t trust twitter and amazon, uber, google and lift round out the least trusted tech companies but we are still using all of them. during a surprise trip to iraq sarah sanders shared incredible video of the troops reacting to donald trump s appearance. watch this. [chanting] they kept chanting. trump s first words in response at ease, at ease.
jillian: good morning, back with headlines now. the nation of islam defending the use of taxpayer dollars to fund a religious program for prisoners. in a statement the group led by louis farrakhan says quote as effective as louis farrakhan s message is and has been it should be supported with the resources it needs to maintain a strong presence in the prison system. according to the washington, d.c. examiner the feds gave the group more than $364,000. planned parenthood is accused of mistreating pregnant employees. in a bombshell, new york times report current and former workers say they were denied breaks while pregnant. they also claim managers decline to hire pregnant women and that the organization pushed people out after giving birth. planned parenthood is investigating those claims. that s a look at your headlines, ainsley, send it back to you. ainsley: thanks, jillian. facebook sunday fire again facing a series of privacy scandals. latest from the new york times report alleg
the new york times reporting the social network gave major tech companies much more access to people s data than it originally disclosed. the company was already reeling from a series of privacy scandals. now hundreds of documents obtained by the times detail among other things how facebook allowed microsoft s bing search engine to see the names of virtually all of facebook users friends. facebook also gave netflix and spotify the ability to read users private messages. facebook also allowed amazon to obtain users names and contact information through their friends and let yahoo! view friends posts as recently as this summer. some of those companies offering varying levels of denials overnight. in total more than 150 companies benefited from the deals. facebook s director of public policy says none of the partnerships violated users privacy. he says most of the partnerships did not require users consent because facebook considered the