“As a New Year begins”, wrote Clegg on Elon Musk’s “X”, “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. It truly has been the adventure of a lifetime!”
Former President, Global Affairs of Meta, Nick Clegg listens as US President Joe Biden talks about AI at the White House in 2023 (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Buried at the end of the announcement, Clegg said that he was “simply thrilled” that his deputy, Joel Kaplan would succeed him. “I have laughed with, as well as learned from, Joel in equal measure” he wrote. “I very much look forward to spending the next few months handing over the reins… before finally leaving Meta after so many enjoyable years at the company”.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Facebook’s Vice President of Global Public Policy Joel Kaplan (R) (Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images)Kaplan, a former White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the administration of President George W. Bush, is no stranger to navigating a Trump-led Washington. In May 2020, as Facebook’s Vice President of Global Public Policy and leader of the company’s Washington office, he was credited with finding a way to keep Trump’s account on the platform active, even amid uproar among Facebook staff over the President’s inflammatory use of the platform.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc. during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington in 2024 ( Photo: Kent Nishimura/ Getty Images)Smoke rises from a burning police cruiser during the Justice for George Floyd Philadelphia Protest in 2020 (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
Kaplan, now 55, proffered a different view, providing Zuckerberg with a series of possible interpretations of Trump’s comment that would allow it to fall within Facebook’s rules of service. After frantic phone calls between Zuckerberg and Trump, the President published a second post in which he said he had invoked the ‘looting and shooting’ phraseology “as a fact, not a statement…. I don’t want it to happen”. That language allowed Trump’s account to remain active.
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Read MoreWashington already knows that Kaplan is cut from an entirely different cloth. In a March 2022 profile, Wired magazine accused him of playing “a pivotal role in exempting politicians from Facebook’s community standards, protecting shock-jock sites like Breitbart from punishment, and throttling algorithmic changes that might have made Facebook less politically polarized”.
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Now more than ever, Zuckerberg has decided he needs a man like Kaplan. As he and his fellow tech bros pledge fealty to Trump, Clegg’s departure coupled with Kaplan’s appointment sends a clear message to the President-elect’s transition headquarters in Mar-A-Lago: Meta will give Trump no problems over the next four years, and will, in return, hope to benefit greatly from the new dispensation in Washington.
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