Meta hires Trump ally in olive branch move

It’s all change at Meta HQ. As Mr S reported last week, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg – who has served as one of Mark Zuckerberg’s senior execs at the company since 2018 – is now on his way out. Taking, ironically, to rival platform Twitter, Clegg wrote that it was now ‘the right time’ to move on from his role at the social media giant, adding his experience ‘truly has been an adventure of a lifetime’. How sweet.

Clegg’s replacement will be his current deputy, Joel Kaplan – who was also George W. Bush’s White House deputy chief of staff. But that’s not the only reshuffle Meta has made. Now it transpires that the chief exec of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Dana White, has joined the social media titan’s board of directors. In a gushing statement from Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder has said that White ‘will add a depth of expertise and perspective that will help us tackle the massive opportunities ahead with AI, wearables and the future of the human connection’.