Meta Replaces Third-Party Fact-Checkers With Community Notes, Adds Diverse Board Voices
Former Meta executive Nick Clegg said Silicon Valley firms shifted toward political alignment after the 2024 election. He left the company in March 2025 after nearly seven years.
ndtv.comNick Clegg has left Meta after serving nearly seven years as the company’s president of global affairs, a role he took up in 2018 following the resignation of his predecessor Elliot Schrage amid the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Clegg’s departure occurred in March 2025.
In an interview with The Rest is Money podcast, Clegg said the company had “changed utterly” from the one he joined, citing a shift from human-centric products toward algorithmically recommended content that is often synthetic. He stated that Meta’s direction no longer appealed to him.
Clegg noted that some Silicon Valley executives have aligned with the Trump administration for “rather more self-interested” reasons while others acted for high-minded motives. He described frequent political flip-flopping as poor business practice.
During Clegg’s tenure, Meta appointed Dana White, chief executive of UFC and a Trump ally, to its board. The company ended its third-party fact-checking program and replaced it with a community notes system. Clegg said Mark Zuckerberg contributed $1 million to the presidential inauguration fund. Financial records show Clegg earned at least £24 million from share sales during his time at Meta.
Clegg was hired as a lobbyist for Meta after Schrage’s exit. He managed the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and established an oversight body for the company’s content moderation decisions. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta director of public policy, later published the book Careless People about her experiences at the company.
Meta obtained an emergency legal order preventing her from publicly discussing certain aspects of the book. The company has described the book as containing a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims along with false accusations about its executives.
Clegg is now a board member of NScale, a cryptocurrency-mining firm that is building Britain’s largest AI data centre. In June 2026 he said of the book episode, “I mean, to put it mildly, it was not exactly the kind of thing that appealed to me.”
