Facebook enlists Nick Clegg as head of global affairs
6 years, 2 months ago

Facebook enlists Nick Clegg as head of global affairs

CNN  

CNN Business — Former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is leaving the world of politics to take a senior job at Facebook. It is understood that both Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg were deeply involved in the hiring process after the three started talking over the summer, the source tells CNN. Clegg – a Liberal Democrat who lost his Sheffield Hallam seat in last year’s snap election to Labour – is the most senior European politician to ever take up a senior executive leadership role in Silicon Valley. Clegg will head to Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters next week before returning to London until his family – including wife Miriam and three sons – relocate to California in the new year.

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Nick Clegg leaves top Facebook job after ‘adventure of a lifetime’
1 week, 5 days ago

Nick Clegg leaves top Facebook job after ‘adventure of a lifetime’

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The former UK deputy prime minister said it was “the right time for me to …

Nick Clegg leaves Facebook to be replaced by former Republican White House staffer
1 week, 5 days ago

Nick Clegg leaves Facebook to be replaced by former Republican White House staffer

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy With only 17 days to go until Donald Trump’s inauguration, …

End of enmity? Trump, Mark Zuckerberg dine at US President-elect's resort
1 month, 2 weeks ago

End of enmity? Trump, Mark Zuckerberg dine at US President-elect's resort

India Today  

Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the President-elect's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, bringing together the Facebook founder and the former President who was once banned from that social network. Stephen Miller, who has been appointed deputy chief of staff for Trump's second term, said Zuckerberg, like other business leaders, wants to support Trump's economic plans. …

Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse, review: how Facebook changed (then ruined) the world
1 year ago

Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse, review: how Facebook changed (then ruined) the world

The Telegraph  

Remember when Facebook seemed harmless? In Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse, one former executive put it this way: “When I first joined, movies were being made; the founder was on the cover of Time magazine; you’re overthrowing dictators. Now, you’re being told you destroyed democracy.” The film traced Facebook from Zuckerberg’s invention to world domination and scandals involving data harvesting, …

Sir Nick Clegg returns to London in latest Meta move
2 years, 5 months ago

Sir Nick Clegg returns to London in latest Meta move

The Telegraph  

Sir Nick Clegg is to join a string of senior Facebook executives moving to London after four years in Silicon Valley, despite predicting that an “economically insecure” Britain would hemorrhage tech businesses in the wake of Brexit. The former Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, 55, who is president of global affairs at Facebook's parent company Meta, is to divide his …

Sheryl Sandberg stepping down after 14 years as Facebook’s No. 2
2 years, 7 months ago

Sheryl Sandberg stepping down after 14 years as Facebook’s No. 2

LA Times  

2 at Facebook parent Meta Platforms, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down after 14 years. Sandberg announced Wednesday that she’ll soon step down as COO of Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc., leaving an enterprise almost unrecognizable from the one she joined. The new name was a nod to the company’s growing interest in the “metaverse” — a trendy …

Sheryl Sandberg quits Facebook owner Meta after 14 years
2 years, 7 months ago

Sheryl Sandberg quits Facebook owner Meta after 14 years

The Telegraph  

Sheryl Sandberg, the woman dubbed Mark Zuckerberg’s most valuable friend, has quit her second-in-command role at Facebook owner Meta after 14 years. In a separate post on Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive and founder, called Ms Sandberg’s departure “the end of an era”. Mr Zuckerberg hired Ms Sandberg as the social media giant’s first chief operating officer in …

Facebook parent Meta moves Nick Clegg to new role in next step of metaverse push
2 years, 10 months ago

Facebook parent Meta moves Nick Clegg to new role in next step of metaverse push

Live Mint  

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg promoted Nick Clegg to president of global affairs, giving the former politician a leading role as the parent company of Facebook tries to navigate myriad global regulatory challenges. The new position for Mr. Clegg, who joined the company in 2018, puts the former British deputy prime minister on the same level as …

Peter Thiel leaving board of Facebook parent Meta
2 years, 11 months ago

Peter Thiel leaving board of Facebook parent Meta

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Peter Thiel a Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former …

How Nick Clegg is losing Facebook's PR war
3 years, 3 months ago

How Nick Clegg is losing Facebook's PR war

The Telegraph  

Three years to fix Facebook. On October 18, 2018 Facebook announced that Sir Nick Clegg, the former Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, would become its head of global affairs. One senator compared Instagram to “that first childhood cigarette meant to get teens hooked early” and posited that “IG stands for Instagram, but it also stands for Insta-greed”. In …

Facebook tech chief Mike Schroepfer to step down
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook tech chief Mike Schroepfer to step down

The Hindu  

September 23, 2021 12:51 pm | Updated 12:51 pm IST Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is stepping down from the social media company, taking on a part-time role while longtime executive Andrew Bosworth will replace him next year. Bosworth, known as “Boz," is another longtime Facebook exec and a close friend of Zuckerberg's. “As our next CTO, Boz will …

Remove Zuckerberg and Sandberg from Facebook: Soros
4 years, 10 months ago

Remove Zuckerberg and Sandberg from Facebook: Soros

India TV News  

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros on Tuesday called for the removal of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Shreyl Sandberg over the company's policy on political ads in the US presidential election year. "The company doesn't need to wait for regulations to stop accepting political ads until after the November election," said Soros. Unlike Twitter, which has completely banned political ads, …

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to discuss ‘internet regulation’ with U.S. senators
5 years, 3 months ago

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to discuss ‘internet regulation’ with U.S. senators

The Hindu  

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill this week to meet with senators as the social media giant faces scrutiny from both the Federal Trade Commission and members of Congress, the company confirmed on Wednesday. Privacy issues It is Mr. Zuckerberg 's first trip to Washington since April 2018, when he fielded 10 hours of questions over two …

Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos urges CEO Mark Zuckerberg to step down
5 years, 7 months ago

Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos urges CEO Mark Zuckerberg to step down

Firstpost  

Stamos, who left the company in 2018, even suggested Microsoft President Brad Smith as Zuck’s replacement. Facebook recently saw its co-founder, Chris Hughes call for breaking up of the social media giant, asking for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to decentralise his powers. As per a report by CNBC, ex-security chief, Alex Stamos is now urging CEO Mark Zuckerberg to step down, …

Tech giants pledge to fight ‘extremist’ content online
5 years, 8 months ago

Tech giants pledge to fight ‘extremist’ content online

Al Jazeera  

New Zealand PM Jacinda Adern has led a campaign against online ‘extremism’ since Christchurch attack was live-streamed. The world’s most well-known technology companies have agreed to fight violent and “extremist” online content on several new fronts. The “Christchurch Call to Action”, spearheaded by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, comes exactly two months after the deadly attack on mosques in …

Mark Zuckerberg rejects co-founder Chris Hughes' call to break up Facebook
5 years, 8 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg rejects co-founder Chris Hughes' call to break up Facebook

India Today  

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has rejected co-founder Chris Hughes' call to break up the social media giant saying that doing so would not solve issues like misinformation and election interference that have been plaguing the tech giant. So I think that if what you care about is democracy and elections, then you want a company like us to be able …

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg calls for more outside regulation
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg calls for more outside regulation

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Saturday for more outside regulation in several areas in which the social media site has run into problems over the past few years: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. But if we were starting from scratch, we wouldn’t ask companies to make these judgments alone.” More regulation over what constitutes …

Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with the UK official who wants to regulate Facebook
5 years, 10 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with the UK official who wants to regulate Facebook

CNN  

CNN Business — Mark Zuckerberg is finally coming face to face with a top UK official who’d like to regulate Facebook. “I think it would be an opportunity for him to make the case,” Wright said shortly after meeting with executives at Google, one of several major technology companies the UK official is visiting this week. “And if he doesn’t …

Sir Nick Clegg's Facebook army and its plans to fight off global regulation
5 years, 11 months ago

Sir Nick Clegg's Facebook army and its plans to fight off global regulation

The Telegraph  

Facebook is hiring a host of new lobbyists, policy experts and spin doctors as it prepares for a regulatory onslaught from governments around the world. Following its appointment of Sir Nick Clegg as its head of global affairs, the social network is advertising more than 50 jobs related to public policy, from counter-terrorism specialists in Washington DC to “crisis communications” …

Facebook lands in trouble again, seven-nation panel to grill social media giant over data breach scandals
6 years, 1 month ago

Facebook lands in trouble again, seven-nation panel to grill social media giant over data breach scandals

India TV News  

Social media giant Facebook landed in trouble yet again as it is set is to face an international committee consisting of 22 members from seven countries over data breaches and failure to tackle political interference. An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to Facebook about the online …

Can Nick Clegg win new friends for Facebook?
6 years, 1 month ago

Can Nick Clegg win new friends for Facebook?

The Telegraph  

Imagine for a moment that you are Sir Nick Clegg. When Sir Nick was deputy prime minister in the coalition government, battling against the Conservatives to make his voice heard, he could at least point to his democratic mandate as an MP and as the leader of a party voted for by almost 7m people. But Facebook is not a …

As Facebook faces fire, heat turns up on No. 2 Sandberg
6 years, 1 month ago

As Facebook faces fire, heat turns up on No. 2 Sandberg

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — For the past decade, Sheryl Sandberg has been the poised, reliable second-in-command to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helping steer Facebook’s rapid growth around the world, while also cultivating her brand in ways that hint at aspirations well beyond the social network. The company’s response — namely, Zuckerberg’s and Sandberg’s — has been slow at best, misleading and …

No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics
6 years, 1 month ago

No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics

NPR  

No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics Enlarge this image toggle caption Chesnot/Getty Images Chesnot/Getty Images Despite calls for his resignation, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not planning to step down. Earlier this month, a damming New York Times investigation alleged that Zuckerberg, his lieutenant Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and others at …

Facebook investors want Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chairman
6 years, 1 month ago

Facebook investors want Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chairman

Live Mint  

Washington: Facebook investors have called on the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chairman following reports that the company hired a public relations firm to smear its critics, a media report said on on Saturday. The New York Times recently published a report revealing that Facebook at times smeared critics as anti-Semitic or tried to link activists …

Some public funds want to replace Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook chairman
6 years, 2 months ago

Some public funds want to replace Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook chairman

CNN  

San Francisco CNN Business — Following a long string of scandals and controversies, some Facebook investors believe the company would be better off without Mark Zuckerberg as its chairman. On Wednesday, a number of state and city treasurers joined a proposal asking Facebook’s board of directors to remove Zuckerberg as chairman. Making the role of chairman an independent position “is …

Facebook's communications and public policy chief Elliot Schrage to step down soon
6 years, 7 months ago

Facebook's communications and public policy chief Elliot Schrage to step down soon

Firstpost  

Elliot Schrage, head of communications and public policy at Facebook, will now step down from the designation after a decade, to start a new chapter in life Facebook said on 14 June that Elliot Schrage, who as head of communications and public policy has led the social network’s response to scandals about privacy and election meddling, would step down from …

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