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As Donald Trump Prepares To Take Office, Meta Names New Public Policy Chief As Nick Clegg Departs
Nick Clegg, who has led global affairs at Meta since 2018, is stepping down, to be succeeded his deputy, Joe Kaplan. The changes in Meta’s public policy and lobbying team come as corporations in general are prepping their shops for the incoming Donald Trump administration and Republican majority. Kaplan, VP of global public policy, was […]
Clegg, the former deputy prime minister of the UK and leader of the Liberal Democrats, wrote on Facebook, “As a new year begins, I have come to the view that this is the right time for me to move on from my role as President, Global Affairs at Meta. When I arrived in the Fall of 2018 the company – then Facebook – was very different to what it is today: it had rapidly established itself as one of the greatest global communication platforms ever invented – empowering billions of people to connect with each other and express themselves like never before – led by one of the most consequential innovators and business leaders of our times, Mark Zuckerberg.” In his message, Clegg wrote that his “time at the company coincided with a significant resetting of the relationship between ‘big tech’ and the societal pressures manifested in new laws, institutions and norms affecting the sector.
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