Facebook workers unveil a brand new brand and the identify “Meta” on the check in entrance of Facebook headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, California.
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The head of communications for Facebook guardian firm Meta Platforms, John Pinette, has left the corporate.
“We are grateful for John’s constructive contributions throughout an intense and vital time within the firm’s historical past,” a Meta spokesperson mentioned in an e mail Saturday. “We want him properly going ahead.” The spokesperson did not give a motive for Pinette’s departure.
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Pinette gave workers the information in a Friday afternoon put up, saying it could be his final day, in keeping with The Wall Street Journal, which earlier reported on his exit. “I do know the staff will proceed to thrive as you do a few of the most essential — and most tough — work in Communications,” the put up mentioned, in keeping with the Journal.
Pinette had dealt with communications since 2019 and had beforehand led communications for Google in Asia. He’d additionally labored for Bill Gates in addition to for Microsoft and for late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s firm Vulcan.
Meta, together with its Facebook and Instagram social networks, has been the topic of intense scrutiny after former Facebook worker Frances Haugen leaked a cache of inside paperwork that amongst different issues confirmed firm researchers had been conscious of the harms attributable to the platforms. The leaks fueled a collection of high-profile media studies late final yr, and Haugen testified earlier than Congress.
A Meta spokesperson instructed Reuters that for now, Chris Norton, vp of worldwide communications, will step into Pinette’s former position.
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