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Macha an hour ago

Clegg later held the same position but was fired as Facebook decided that it was more politically favorable to stop employing someone in the role that was involved in content moderation (including actions against Donald Trump) and instead hire someone with connections to Donald Trump in January 2025, due to some sort of recent event at at that time.

I guess that the thread is implying his position would have given him access to newer claims, just as Wynn-Williams' had, and the method of his firing might give him motivation to reveal anything he knows.

Personally I feel that might be giving Clegg to much credit.

KaiserPro 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Clegg later held the same position

Clegg was more senior than wynn-williams. Kaplan reported to Clegg

I don't think Clegg will do something like that, because its not really in his way of doing things. He is extraordinarily well connected, and is currently riding the board of directors gravy train.

TheOtherHobbes 15 minutes ago | parent [-]

Always was. Clegg is notorious for getting the Tories into power in 2010 by promising some basic decency, then betraying those promises to prop up the regime responsible for austerity.

He's always been an operator. Moving to Meta after he left politics was an "Oh, of course."

dofm an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the story about the Trump decision is likely to have a politically explosive aspect to it.

Because Zuckerberg had dragged his feet about creating the board until they needed the board in order to launder a decision they knew they might need to make.

But he wasn't just the oversight board; he was president of global affairs for three-odd years.

I don't intend to give Clegg credit, particularly. I'm not a fan. I'm just saying that people like him write books and he will surely have been approached to do so.