D.C. Facebook Employees Get A New Boss
Joel Kaplan, a former staff member under George W. Bush, will join Facebook and lead the Washington D.C. office.
Joel Kaplan, a former staff member under George W. Bush, will join Facebook and lead the Washington D.C. office.
Previously an executive vice president at Energy Future Holdings, Kaplan has very strong ties to the Republican party.
Facebook is in need of growing the company’s D.C. efforts as they want to “demonstrate to policy makers that [they] are industry leaders in privacy, data security and safety,” the company said in a press release.
Evelyn Rusli of the New York Times is calling this a “significant coup.”
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