Meta Promotes GOP-Affiliated Exec Joel Kaplan to Head of Global Affairs Ahead of Trump Inauguration
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Meta‘s president of global policy, former U.K. deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, is leaving the social giant.
Taking his place: Joel Kaplan, a Meta lobbying exec with ties to the Republican party. Clegg is stepping down from the role — after more than six years — just weeks before Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as U.S.
president. “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,” Clegg wrote in a public Facebook post Thursday.
Kaplan joined Facebook in 2011, and became the company’s VP of global public policy in 2014. He has been seen as key to Meta’s efforts to reach out conservative lawmakers who have criticized the company for a perceived anticonservative bias. “Joel is quite clearly the right person for the right job at the right time — ideally placed to shape the company’s strategy as societal and political expectations around technology continue to evolve,” Clegg wrote in the post.
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