Facebook brought in some high-powered talent to help it deal with crisis after crisis after crisis, naming Jennifer Newstead as its general counsel and John Pinette as its new vice president of global communications.
President Donald Trump appointed Newstead as the State Department’s top legal adviser in 2017. Prior to that, she was a partner handling cross-border regulatory matters at law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell.
She also served as an attorney in the George W. Bush administration and a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and she was responsible for portions of the Patriot Act.
Newstead succeeds Colin Stretch, who said last July that he would leave the company at the end of the year but ended up staying on a bit longer to deal with the aftermath of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election.
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