Meta Platforms Names Republican to Role of Chief Policy Executive

Meta Platforms is replacing its chief policy executive Nick Clegg with his Republican deputy Joel Kaplan, the latest move by the tech industry to align itself with the incoming Trump administration. Clegg, former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom and head of the country’s center-left Liberal Democratic Party, joined Meta in 2018 after the Cambridge Analytica scandal damaged its reputation. He became the company’s top policy executive in 2022.

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