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Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister turned CEO of Meta, is leaving after seven years with the media company. Clegg announced his resignation on X and Threads, says that “the time is right for me to step down from my role as President, Global Affairs at Meta.”
Clegg will be replaced by Joel Kaplan, a longtime policy chief and former White House aide to George W. Bush who is known for his position. deep relationships at the Republican headquarters in Washington. As Chief Global Affairs Officer, Kaplan – as Street lights -will be ready to disrupt the Meta when Donald Trump takes control of the White House.
Clegg contacted Meta in 2018a year after the British people saw the former leader of the Liberal Democrats unelected. The company then known as Facebook wanted to improve its political relations after Cambridge Analytica and other scandals. In 2022, he was to President of Global Affairs, a position that reported directly to Mark Zuckerberg (his previous position was overseen by Meta’s former COO Sheryl Sandberg).
The former politician played a major role in Meta’s major and controversial decisions. He publicly defended the company’s decision not to use it to politics and writing his public statements about and on Donald Trump’s Facebook account. Recently, Mr Clegg criticized the European Union for regulating technology, saying the bloc. increasing AI.
“My time at the company has coincided with a major reshaping of the relationship between ‘big tech’ and societal challenges reflected in the new laws, institutions and traditions affecting the sector,” Clegg said. on Threads. “I believe I have done something to bring together different technological and political worlds – worlds that will continue to interact in unexpected ways around the world.”
Clegg said in a that he will spend the next “several months” working with Kaplan and “representing the company at several international conferences in Q1 of this year” before leaving the company. He did not indicate what he would do next.
