'Meta's longtime content policy chief Bickert leaving to teach at Harvard'

Meta's long-time content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the ‌writing and enforcement of Facebook’s content policies ‌and had a role in the company’s approach to user ​safety issues, is leaving the company for a job at Harvard Law School.

Bickert will stay at Meta until August and work on a transition plan ‌with Kevin Martin, ⁠who oversees Meta’s global policy team, she wrote in an internal post viewed ⁠by Reuters on Friday, which said she had long been interested in teaching.

As head of content policy, ​Bickert has ​regularly served as Meta’s ​public face amid controversies ‌over its handling of political content and teen mental health. A former federal prosecutor, she joined Facebook in 2012. The company later changed its name to Meta.

“Yes, we’re a business and we make ‌profit, but the idea ​that we do so at ​the expense of ​people’s safety or well-being misunderstands where our ‌own commercial interests lie,” ​she wrote in ​2021 after the leak of documents by former Meta employee Frances Haugen.

In a statement, Meta ​Chief Global ‌Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan praised Bickert’s work at ​the company.

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