Rob Leathern, director of product management, said earlier this month on Facebook s internal network that he would be leaving the company on December 30. His exit had not been reported.
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Facebook Inc’s chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company’s ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, according to an internal company post viewed by Reuters on Friday.
According to Reuters, Rob Leathern, director of product management, said earlier this month on Facebook’s internal network that he would be leaving the company on December 30. His exit had not been previously reported.
Facebook could not immediately be reached for comment.
Leathern said in the post that he was “leaving Facebook to work on consumer privacy beyond just ads and social media,” without disclosing where he was headed.
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FILE PHOTO: 3D printed ballot boxes are seen in front of a displayed Facebook logo in this illustration taken November 4, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
(Reuters) -Facebook Inc on Tuesday said it would lift a temporary post-election ban on political ads in Georgia beginning on Wednesday, as the U.S. state prepares for runoff elections next month that will determine which party controls the Senate.
The ban on political ads in other states will remain, the social media giant said in a blog post bit.ly/2Kqjkrh. A Facebook spokeswoman declined to say when this overall ban would be lifted.(bit.ly/3nt0K0k)
We agree that our ad tools are an important way for people to get information about these elections, Facebook s Sarah Schiff wrote in the blog post. So we have developed a process to allow advertisers to run ads with the purpose of reaching voters in Georgia about Georgia s runoff elections.
The change comes ahead of Georgia s runoff races, in which Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler will challenge Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively. As of now, Republicans will hold a 50-48 majority in the Senate in January. If Democrats win both of the Georgia runoff races, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would be the tiebreaking vote, giving the party unified control of the White House and Congress. If Republicans keep just one seat, the GOP will retain control of the Senate.