Facebook’s promoting integrity chief leaves firm

Facebook Inc’s chief of promoting integrity, who dealt with the corporate’s advert merchandise round delicate topics such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, in accordance with an inner firm publish seen by Reuters on Friday.Rob Leathern, director of product administration, mentioned earlier this month on Facebook’s inner community that he can be leaving the corporate on Dec. 30. His exit had not been beforehand reported.Facebook couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.Leathern mentioned within the publish that he was “leaving Facebook to work on consumer privacy beyond just ads and social media,” with out disclosing the place he was headed. Leathern was typically the general public face of the corporate’s controversial political promoting insurance policies. Prior to the Nov. 3 U.S. election, Facebook was closely criticized for permitting deceptive claims and conspiracy theories to unfold broadly on its platforms.In November, Leathern had tweeted that Facebook didn’t have “the technical ability in the short term to enable political ads by state or by advertiser.” Subsequently, Facebook lifted a short lived post-election ban on political advertisements in Georgia forward of the Jan. 5 runoff that may decide which celebration controls the U.S. Senate.