{"id":1313468,"date":"2022-02-19T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1313468"},"modified":"2022-02-19T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T15:22:42","slug":"falling-upward-zuckerbergs-meta-promotes-ex-uk-deputy-pm-clegg-to-global-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/falling-upward-zuckerbergs-meta-promotes-ex-uk-deputy-pm-clegg-to-global-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Upward: Zuckerberg&#039;s &#039;Meta&#039; Promotes Ex-UK Deputy PM Clegg to Global Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffalling-upward-zuckerbergs-meta-promotes-ex-uk-deputy-pm-clegg-to-global-role%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1313468&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1034706544-e1645096585532-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sir Nick Clegg, the discredited deputy prime minister turned Silicon Valley bigwig, has been promoted by Facebook\u2019s parent company to a senior global position under the direct supervision of tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/election-2017-40212223\">Rejected<\/a> British politician Sir Nick Clegg continue will to enjoy working in powerful roles without public accountability now Facebook parent company Meta has promoted him to President of Global Affairs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>This will mean that the former head of Britain\u2019s Liberal Democrats and one-time Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will now be reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg in his role at the corporation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheryl\/posts\/10165956483745177\">post<\/a> by Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, Sir Nick \u2014 who joined the company in 2018 as its Vice President of Global Affairs \u2014 will now be responsible for leading Meta on all \u201cpolicy matters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last three years, Nick has managed some of the most complex issues our company faces \u2014 including content policy, elections, the establishment of the Oversight Board, and more,\u201d Zuckerberg wrote, praising the ex-Lib Dem leader.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs Nick takes on this new leadership role, it will enable me to focus more of my energy on leading the company as we build new products for the future, and it will support Sheryl as she continues to focus on the success of our business,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the online post announcing his promotion, Sir Nick expressed his enthusiasm regarding the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to be asked to take up this new role,\u201d the failed politician wrote in the post\u2019s comment section. \u201cOur company is at an important inflection point and we face numerous opportunities \u2014 and challenges \u2014 ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur existing, and future, products will continue to be a subject of intense societal interest and debate,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who Is Nick Clegg? Left-wing, Anti-Brexit Former UK Deputy PM Hired as Facebook\u2019s Global Comms Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5hmzM3yJR9\">https:\/\/t.co\/5hmzM3yJR9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1053662121656008705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Clegg \u2014 an avowed anti-Brexiteer who has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/brexit-theresa-may-donald-trump-talks-unwitting-tool-hardline-nationalists-destroying-european-union-nick-clegg-a7542676.html\">denounced<\/a> what he reportedly called the \u201caxis of aggressive nationalism\u201d \u2014 has been failing upwards ever since being booted from Parliament by British voters in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>While having previously been&nbsp;seen as an electoral sweetheart ahead of Britain\u2019s 2010 General Election, once in office as Deputy PM things went very quickly downhill for the left-liberal, as the Conservative-led coalition government implemented a swathe of cuts in the hopes of dealing with the ongoing 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A particular low point during his time in government was when his party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/10\/20\/nick-clegg-left-wing-anti-brexit-former-uk-deputy-pm-hired-facebooks-global-comms-chief\/\">voted<\/a> to triple university tuition fees, despite Sir Nick having previously toured British campuses with a signed pledge to vote against any rise in fees.<\/p>\n<p>This political disaster led to the Liberal Democrats publishing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/video\/2012\/sep\/20\/nick-clegg-apology-tuition-fees-video\">video<\/a> in which their leader apologised for the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a pledge made with the best of intentions,\u201d Sir Nick said in the video. \u201cBut we shouldn\u2019t have made a promise we weren\u2019t absolutely sure we could deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The video was summarily ridiculed online, with an autotuned remix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KUDjRZ30SNo\">posted<\/a> in 2012 having since been viewed nearly 3.7 million times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clegg failed utterly on tuition fees. Political failure on an industrial scale. It was a pledge not just a policy. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/s4CXJCDMFA\">pic.twitter.com\/s4CXJCDMFA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Prof Patrick McGhee (@ProfMcGhee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfMcGhee\/status\/583729698506702850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sir Nick has not freed himself from scandal since joining Facebook either, becoming what appeared to be Zuckerberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/15\/mark-zuckerberg-is-hiding-behind-facebook-fall-guy-nick-clegg\/\">fall guy<\/a> within the company since he joined up in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He was also allegedly involved with a decision to censor a controversial&nbsp;<em>New York Post&nbsp;<\/em>article from being circulated on the Facebook platform during the U.S. presidential election in 2020, the content of which was damaging to the Biden campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democrat leader had previously acted openly against then-U.S. President Donald Trump, joining an anti-Trump protest when the U.S. President visited the United Kingdom in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe dislikes everything I believe in and believes in everyone I dislike!\u201d Sir Nick declared when denouncing the 45th President of the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No Collusion, Brexit Edition: Clegg Admits \u2018Absolutely No Evidence\u2019 Russia Influenced Vote via Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9fQYAtHAo4\">https:\/\/t.co\/9fQYAtHAo4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1143209672054231044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Nick Clegg, the discredited deputy prime minister turned Silicon Valley bigwig, has been promoted by Facebook\u2019s parent company to a senior global position under the direct supervision of tech &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}