In the morning news on February 17, Beijing time, it was reported that a few days ago,Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced an executive promotion. Nick Clegg, a former British deputy prime minister, has been promoted to vice president of global affairs.That means putting more responsibilities on Craig and allowing Meta to ride out the global regulatory storm against the company.
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Zuckerberg stated that he will make Craig responsible for all the company’s policy affairs, including interacting with governments of various countries that are formulating social network regulatory policies, and explaining and introducing the rationality of the company’s products to the outside world.
Zuckerberg said that in the future, Craig will continue to report to Chief Operating Officer Sandberg, and will also report directly to himself.
Craig’s promotion will free Meta’s top-ranked Zuckerberg and second-ranked Sandberg from public policy decision-making and focus more on developing new products and expanding the business.
In the past few years, Facebook has been hit with countless scandals involving privacy violations, a lack of regulation of social media content, and a lack of online safety for children.
In front of governments such as the United States, Zuckerberg is still an unpopular figure. In view of this, he has gradually disappeared from public view in recent years and no longer has to deal with regulators.
Not long ago, Zuckerberg announced the so-called Metaverse development plan with a high profile, and renamed the company “Meta”. He’s going to invest billions of dollars to build a virtual world where avatars move.
According to reports, Craig was once the leader of the British Liberal Democrats. He served as Deputy Prime Minister in the UK coalition government from 2010 to 2015. At that time, the British Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party for the first time in history, but Craig’s decision was opposed by many Liberal Democrats supporters.
In 2017, Craig lost his seat in the UK MP. In 2018, Craig joined what was then Facebook as head of policy and public relations. At the time, Facebook faced strict scrutiny from government regulators around the world following the “major scandal at Cambridge Analytica in the UK”.
Craig served as an adviser to Zuckerberg ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which involved decisions on major issues, such as a complete shutdown of political advertising, the creation of an independent social media content regulatory board, and the suspension of the U.S. Former President Trump’s Facebook account (after the riots on Capitol Hill, Trump’s remarks were repeatedly violated, causing huge controversy).
In this newly promoted position, Craig will communicate closely with politicians and regulators in various countries to discuss various hot issues related to social media, such as antitrust investigations, personal data privacy protection, and social media content supervision. , and the protection of children’s rights, in addition to how to regulate the emerging online virtual space in the future.
Craig said that Meta’s current and future products will inevitably continue to attract public attention and discussions. He hopes to participate in these discussions on behalf of Meta, so as to ensure that the company can formulate correct policies that not only reflect the company’s society responsibility, but also to support the development of innovative products for many years to come.
It is worth mentioning that behind Craig’s promotion, Meta has recently undergone a large-scale senior personnel adjustment and reorganization. Meta has lost a number of executives over the past few years, including Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer, Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer, and head of Facebook’s mainstay Fidji Simo of Client Products.