Meta CEO Zuckerberg promotes Nick Clegg to lead on policy issues

In this Tuesday, April 28, 2015 file photo, Nick Clegg, then leader of Britain's Liberal Democrat party, speaks at a press conference in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)

Meta Platforms Inc FB.O CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that he had promoted policy chief Nick Clegg into a larger role to lead on policy matters, signaling less involvement from Zuckerberg in the area.

"We need a senior leader at the level of myself (for our products) and Sheryl (for our business) who can lead and represent us for all of our policy issues globally," Zuckerberg wrote, referring to Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Clegg, who was a British deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2015, joined Facebook in 2018 in a role running its global policy organization. He also spearheaded the establishment of the company's independent content oversight board.

"Nick will now lead our company on all our policy matters, including how we interact with governments as they consider adopting new policies and regulations, as well as how we make the case publicly for our products and our work," Zuckerberg said in the post.

(Reporting by Elizabeth Culliford in New York and Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath and Howard Goller)