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Zuckerberg Promotes UK’s Nick Clegg to More Senior Role at Meta

February 17, 2022
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Former deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has been promoted by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to a new role focused on regulation which puts him at the same level of seniority as the firm’s founder. The 55-year-old was recruited by Facebook in 2018 to be its head of global affairs as Zuckerberg sought to repair the…

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg Promotes Nick Clegg to Lead on Policy Issues

February 17, 2022
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Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that he had promoted policy chief Nick Clegg into a larger role to lead on all policy matters, signaling less involvement from Zuckerberg in the area. “We need a senior leader at the level of myself (for our products) and Sheryl (for…

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Former Deputy PM Turned Facebook Executive Defends 2-Year Trump Suspension

June 7, 2021
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Former UK Deputy Prime Minister who now serves as Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, has defended the two-year suspension of former President Donald Trump from the social media platform. “Free speech, free expression is not a free-for-all, it’s not a recipe for anarchy. We’ve always had rules, quite rightly as Facebook that…

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Facebook VP Nick Clegg Defends Tech Giant’s Australian News Ban

February 26, 2021
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Facebook’s Vice President of Global Affairs has defended the tech giant’s Australian news ban, saying it was “legally necessary” to do so before impending media payment laws were legislated through the country’s Parliament. Clegg, who is a former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, wrote in a blog just hours after the news ban was…

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