Meta Taps Joel Kaplan to Lead Policy as Nick Clegg Departs

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Meta Taps Joel Kaplan to Lead Policy as Nick Clegg Departs
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Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook's parent company, is reshuffling its policy leadership ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Nick Clegg, former British deputy prime minister and Meta's global head of policy since 2018, is stepping down. Joel Kaplan, Meta's current policy vice president and a former Republican party staffer, will take over as Chief Global Affairs Officer.

Facebook parent Meta is shaking up the composition of its policy team three weeks before President-elect Donald Trump 's inauguration.

Kaplan was a staffer under former president George W. Bush, and he appeared at the NYSE with incoming Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump in December.is replacing President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg with Joel Kaplan, the company's current policy vice president and a former Republican party staffer.

Clegg joined the company in 2018 after a career in British politics with the Liberal Democrats party, and he helped Meta navigate incredible scrutiny, especially over the company's influence on elections and its efforts to control harmful content. Clegg also helped steer the company through the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which Facebook shared user data with third-party political consultants.

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