San Francisco | Meta on Thursday (Friday AEDT) appointed Joel Kaplan – a longtime executive who was a former senior adviser to George W. Bush and is known for his Republican ties – to be its new head of global policy, as the social media giant seeks to strengthen its links to the incoming Trump administration.
Mr Kaplan replaces Nick Clegg, a former deputy prime minister of Britain who has handled policy and regulatory issues globally for Meta since 2018. In a post to his personal Facebook page, Mr Clegg said that Mr Kaplan was “quite clearly the right person for the right job at the right time, ideally placed to shape the company’s strategy as societal and political expectations around technology continue to evolve”.