https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8846087/Nick-Clegg-involved-Facebooks-decision-hush-story-Joe-Bidens-son.html

Nick Clegg was involved in Facebook's decision to 'reduce the distribution' of a New York Post Joe Biden story, reports suggest.

Facebook was accused of 'acting as Joe Biden’s PR team' by top Republicans for hushing up the story just days before the US election on November 3.

The former-deputy Prime Minister is the vice-president of global affairs and communications at the social media giant.

Most of Facebook's decisions are made by automatic software - or by moderation staff.

But, for sensitive moderation issues that hold cultural or political significance, Facebook's vice-president of content policy, vice-president of global public policy and then Sir Nick look into the case as it passes up a chain.

Only the most high-profile cases will hit Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg or COO Sheryl Sandberg's desk.

It is not known who had the final say in the distribution of the Joe Biden story and Facebook declined to comment,

Since announcing it started 'reducing distribution' of the story, Facebook hasn't given any information about why it took the step, who the fact checkers are or when they will allow it to be shared again.

Neither Joe nor Hunter has denied the story outright. Now, many are accusing the two tech companies of playing favorites because no anti-Trump story by a legitimate news organization has ever faced such tough restrictions.

https://www.nickclegg.org.uk/

He was elected leader of the Liberal Democrats in December 2007.

Following the formation of the Coalition Government in May 2010 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister.

In 2015 after a resounding election defeat for the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg resigned as leader describing the defeat as (in which he lost his own seat) — “immeasurably more crushing and unkind“

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In a highly unusual announcement in 2018 having spent over 16 years in politics, it was announced that Nick had been hired as Vice President, Global Affairs & Communications at Facebook where he resides with his family in Menlo Park, USA.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolascolin/2018/10/29/nick-clegg-joins-facebook-and-signals-a-power-shift-toward-europe/#68af413873e2

Nick Clegg, the former British Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats, recently announced that he was joining Facebook as its head of global policy, succeeding Elliot Schrage.

It’s a first in many respects, not least because there are not many former politicians that have joined tech companies at that level of seniority. Up to now, it was mostly a few former operatives such as Airbnb’s Chris Lehane (a veteran of the Clinton administration) and David Plouffe (who was the campaign manager of the Obama 2008 presidential campaign) who took up such posts. Richard Allan, the director of policy for Europe at Facebook EMEA, was a rare former elected official to have joined a US tech company (and as luck would have it, he was also Clegg’s predecessor in the House of Commons).