Meta’s president of global affairs, former U.K. deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, is leaving the social giant after more than six years. Taking his place: Joel Kaplan, a Meta lobbying exec with ties to the Republican party.
Clegg is stepping down from the role just weeks before Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as U.S. president. “As a new year begins, I have come to the view that this is the right time for me to move on from my role as President, Global Affairs at Meta,” Clegg wrote in a public Facebook post Thursday.
Kaplan joined Facebook in 2011, and became the company’s VP of
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