On the second day of the year, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced that he was to leave Meta. Clegg had spent the past six years as the Facebook parent’s respectable face on policy, advocating on the company’s behalf on issues including regulation. His exit came as a shock but perhaps it was more of a harbinger of what was to come as Meta began to contort itself to fit the prevailing ideology that had taken hold in the US. The outgoing public policy chief will be replaced by his number two, Joel Kaplan, who was the deputy…

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