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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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. The shake-up ...

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 ...

Kaplan, as Meta staffers and Washington Republicans told me, made sure that MAGA Republicans knew they always had a seat at Zuckerberg's proverbial table.