As policy chief, Kaplan holds vast sway over the Meta algorithm and has helped shape Facebook and Instagram as we know them today. Most significantly, he’s played an instrumental role in ...

Meta Platforms has declined to sign the European Union's AI Code of Practice, a voluntary framework intended to help ...

Kaplan joined Facebook in 2011, and became the company’s VP of global public policy in 2014. He has been seen as key to Meta’s efforts to reach out conservative lawmakers who have criticized ...

Research/Study Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Joel Kaplan go on right-wing media tour, promoting policy rollbacks and currying favor with Trump Zuckerberg and Kaplan both took to conservative ...

Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI,” global affairs chief Joel Kaplan wrote in a post on LinkedIn Friday.

Kaplan, who once served as deputy chief of staff for George W. Bush, is set to take over the reins of the Facebook and Instagram owner just days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Facebook parent Meta is replacing its president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, with Joel Kaplan, the company's current policy vice president and a former Republican Party staffer.

Nick Clegg, who has led global affairs at Meta since 2018, is stepping down, to be succeeded by his deputy, Joel Kaplan. The changes in Meta’s public policy and lobbying team come as ...

Joel Kaplan, who worked in the White House under George W. Bush, advocated against restrictions on political speech on Meta’s social media platforms.

Months before Trump was suspended from Facebook in 2021 following the attack of January 6, Trump's account was very nearly curtailed in an entirely separate ordeal. During the George Floyd ...