Facebook ’s tribal chief of publicizing integrity Rob Leathern has left the ship’s company , he foretell ina Twitter threadFriday . Leathern came onboard in short after President Donald Trump take office , and some of the social media giant ’s more disputative ad policies , including those regarding election and coronavirus misinformation , roll out during his tenure .
After almost 4 years , I made the difficult decision to pull up stakes Facebook , and 12/30/20 was my last twenty-four hour period at FB . I ’ve had a corking experience in a difficult , fun , tight - growing and impactful function at the party working with awful hoi polloi . I was honour to call them colleagues ! ( 1/12 )
— Rob Leathern ( @robleathern)January 1 , 2021
Photo: Denis Charlet (Getty Images)
Leathern break his determination on an inner company web earlier this month , enounce in a Wiley Post reviewed byReutersthat he was “ leaving Facebook to run on consumer privacy beyond just ads and societal media ” and his last daytime would be Dec. 30 .
More of late , the company agreed to temporarily disable political ads on its platform , but onlyafter the poll closedfor the 2020 presidential raceway . In November , Leathern said ina series of tweetsthat Facebook lacked “ the technical ability in the short term to enable political ads by state or by adman , ” but roughly one month later on the companylifted its political ad banin Georgia ahead of the state ’s contentious run - off election on January 5 that will decide which party insure the Senate .
Ina Twitter threadFriday eve , Leathern called his piece of work at Facebook “ difficult and demanding ” at times , but said he was proud of what his colleagues had accomplished . He added that their work “ makes a immense difference , often in way the public does n’t see ( & pull criticism , which come up with having a fortune of responsibleness ! ) ”
“ Despite 2020 ’s additional bubble of incertitude , the teams I ran or influenced did a raft of very good workplace , admit related to the US election where a lot of work was the completion of a huge amount of crusade over several geezerhood , ” hetweeted .
Leathern promise to reveal more details about his next professional speculation in the come week , say only that he was “ abide in the technical school / data / privacy quad ” but would n’t be work on ads directly .
It ’s unclear exactly why Leathern split style with Facebook . He did n’t bid any explanation in his Twitter thread beyond that it had been a “ difficult determination . ” Facebook did n’t forthwith respond to Gizmodo ’s asking for remark on the affair .
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