By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-03 21:31:28 | Updated at 2025-01-05 19:20:06
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Former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday he is stepping down from his role as president of Meta’s global affairs and will be replaced by Republican stalwart Joel Kaplan.
Clegg joined Meta in late 2018 as the company grappled with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
Clegg ceding his job to Kaplan, who served as deputy chief of staff for policy under then-president George W Bush from 2006-2009, comes as Republican Donald Trump is set to return to the White House.
“As a new year begins, I have come to the view that this is the right time for me to move on,” Clegg said in a post on social media.
“I hope I have played some role in seeking to bridge the very different worlds of tech and politics - worlds that will continue to interact in unpredictable ways across the globe.”
Clegg referred to his years as Meta as an adventure, saying that when he arrived at the company it was undergoing rapid growth that brought with it scrutiny and controversy.
