Nick Clegg joined Facebook in late 2018 to lead its policy and communications teams. He's now the company's president of Global Affairs reporting directly to Zuckerberg. Before Clegg, Sandberg had been the top political figure at the company. The oversight board would be staffed by people who weren't Facebook employees.
Today, we're sharing a special episode from Land of the Giants: The Facebook/ Meta Disruption. To listen to the full series from episode one, Follow Land of the Giants to get new episodes every Wednesday.
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Facebook used to brag about how its tools helped politicians swing elections. Now, the platform’s relationship to politics is much more complicated. Today: the story of how one politician, again and again, forced Zuckerberg to confront his own role in democracy.
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