Rob Leathern, who led Fb’s enterprise integrity division, together with the enforcement of political promoting insurance policies and its dealing with of misinformation, has departed the tech large.
Leathern, whose job title was director of product administration, left the enterprise on December 30, based on his Twitter posts. The information was first reported by Reuters.
The ad product boss stated on Twitter that he had “the tough determination to depart Fb” to take up a brand new position within the tech/information/privateness area.
“I’ll share extra about the place I’m going within the subsequent week or two,” he tweeted on January 2.
He had overseen the enterprise integrity product workforce for almost 4 years. The workforce is liable for implementing advertisements and enterprise insurance policies throughout Fb, Instagram, WhatsApp and different Fb merchandise.
Prior to now 12 months, that has included navigating the difficult terrains of political promoting and Covid-19 misinformation. Leathern has been the spokesperson for Fb on these matters a number of instances, together with on Fb’s determination to increase its November ban on political promoting coinciding with the US election. Fb lifted the momentary post-election ban on political advertisements in Georgia forward of the January 5 runoff that can decide which social gathering controls the US Senate.
Leathern stated engaged on enterprise, ad integrity and belief at Fb has been “tough and demanding work at instances”, however added that “the passionate and devoted crew I labored with have completed a terrific deal in these previous few years”.