Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is shaking up its global policy team, with President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg stepping down and being replaced by Joel Kaplan, the company’s most senior Republican executive.
Semafor reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced a major leadership change on Thursday, with Joel Kaplan set to replace Nick Clegg as the head of the company’s global policy team. Kaplan, who currently serves as Meta’s vice president of global public policy and was Clegg’s chief deputy, will take over the role in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
The shift comes as the titans of Silicon Valley are bending the knee to President-elect Donald Trump and his inner circle, while pulling back from the progressive stances many had adopted in recent years. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had…
