FB - Facebook's advertising integrity chief departs company
"After almost 4 years, I made the difficult decision to leave Facebook," tweeted Rob Leathern, Facebook's (FB) chief of advertising integrity and director of product management."I've had a great experience in a difficult, fun, fast-growing and impactful role at the company working with amazing people. I was honored to call them colleagues! While I'm sad I won't get to see firsthand the amazing growth of the part of the organization I helped build (and the amazing people therein), I'll continue to be a Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp superfan and user and I will be cheering them on!"Leathern was often the public face of the company's controversial advertising policies, which banned political ads shortly before and following the U.S. presidential election.In November, he tweeted that Facebook did not have "the technical ability in the short term to enable political ads by state or by advertiser. "It's taken years to build the infrastructure that supports
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Facebook's advertising integrity chief departs company