Joel Kaplan

They've just become too restrictive over time about what people can say, including about those kind of sensitive topics that you mentioned that people want to discuss and debate. Immigration, trans issues, gender.

They've just become too restrictive over time about what people can say, including about those kind of sensitive topics that you mentioned that people want to discuss and debate. Immigration, trans issues, gender.

They've just become too restrictive over time about what people can say, including about those kind of sensitive topics that you mentioned that people want to discuss and debate. Immigration, trans issues, gender.

We want to make it so that, bottom line, if you can say it on TV, you can say it on the floor of Congress, you certainly ought to be able to say it on Facebook and Instagram without fear of censorship. So we're changing those rules.

We want to make it so that, bottom line, if you can say it on TV, you can say it on the floor of Congress, you certainly ought to be able to say it on Facebook and Instagram without fear of censorship. So we're changing those rules.

We want to make it so that, bottom line, if you can say it on TV, you can say it on the floor of Congress, you certainly ought to be able to say it on Facebook and Instagram without fear of censorship. So we're changing those rules.

Hani Fareed, who's a professor at UC Berkeley, calls Joel Kaplan the most influential person at Facebook that most people haven't heard of. There's no question that the things that happen at Meta are coming from Mark. But there's also no question that there has been a change over the last- So Kaplan for the last 15 years or so has had this extremely important role at Facebook.

Hani Fareed, who's a professor at UC Berkeley, calls Joel Kaplan the most influential person at Facebook that most people haven't heard of. There's no question that the things that happen at Meta are coming from Mark. But there's also no question that there has been a change over the last- So Kaplan for the last 15 years or so has had this extremely important role at Facebook.

Hani Fareed, who's a professor at UC Berkeley, calls Joel Kaplan the most influential person at Facebook that most people haven't heard of. There's no question that the things that happen at Meta are coming from Mark. But there's also no question that there has been a change over the last- So Kaplan for the last 15 years or so has had this extremely important role at Facebook.

And formally, his role has been to forecast and manage policy risk. Functionally, his role in the last 10 years has grown to be as sprawling, basically, as Facebook's reach itself. And it involves overseeing a prolific lobby in Washington, D.C., which is managing relations with the federal government and state capitals.

And formally, his role has been to forecast and manage policy risk. Functionally, his role in the last 10 years has grown to be as sprawling, basically, as Facebook's reach itself. And it involves overseeing a prolific lobby in Washington, D.C., which is managing relations with the federal government and state capitals.

And formally, his role has been to forecast and manage policy risk. Functionally, his role in the last 10 years has grown to be as sprawling, basically, as Facebook's reach itself. And it involves overseeing a prolific lobby in Washington, D.C., which is managing relations with the federal government and state capitals.

And he leads, Kaplan, a team of about 1,000 policy staff worldwide in Facebook, shaping and massaging and sometimes thwarting the international laws and regulatory bodies and policies that graze any part of Facebook's enormous business. But it's this third role that has made Kaplan so controversial, and that is helping design and arbitrate

And he leads, Kaplan, a team of about 1,000 policy staff worldwide in Facebook, shaping and massaging and sometimes thwarting the international laws and regulatory bodies and policies that graze any part of Facebook's enormous business. But it's this third role that has made Kaplan so controversial, and that is helping design and arbitrate

And he leads, Kaplan, a team of about 1,000 policy staff worldwide in Facebook, shaping and massaging and sometimes thwarting the international laws and regulatory bodies and policies that graze any part of Facebook's enormous business. But it's this third role that has made Kaplan so controversial, and that is helping design and arbitrate

Facebook's policies on political speech, which have changed so much and so dramatically over the last 10 years.

Facebook's policies on political speech, which have changed so much and so dramatically over the last 10 years.

Facebook's policies on political speech, which have changed so much and so dramatically over the last 10 years.

Kaplan's role for the first three years, he's one of a number of elder statesman types surrounding a younger Zuckerberg who has increasingly realized that the reach of his company is going to be entangled in policy matters in Washington. Senator, we run ads. I see.

Kaplan's role for the first three years, he's one of a number of elder statesman types surrounding a younger Zuckerberg who has increasingly realized that the reach of his company is going to be entangled in policy matters in Washington. Senator, we run ads. I see.