First, Meta shook up its public policy team, removing former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who had been leading public affairs since 2018, and replacing him with Facebook veteran Joel Kaplan, a former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush with deep Republican ties in D.C.Then, on Jan. 7, Zuckerberg unveiled a sweeping overhaul of Meta’s content moderation strategy, eliminating its fact-checking operation and greatly reducing its content moderation outside of extreme examples like terrorism.
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