Joe Biden hires Facebook executive Jessica Hertz for transition team
By Mark Moore
October 1, 2020 | 11:06am | Updated
Joe Biden’s transition team has hired top Facebook executive Jessica Hertz as its general counsel to oversee ethical issues, as the campaign tussles with the social media giant to get it to censor President Trump’s posts, according to a report.
This will be the second hire by Team Biden of a former Big Tech executive, following Carlos Monje, Twitter’s director of public policy brought on as co-chair of the transition team’s infrastructure policy committee.
Biden hiring Hertz, who worked on government relations with Facebook, has sparked fury on the left.
She will be responsible for “enforcement, oversight, and compliance†of the ethics plan the Biden transition team unveiled Wednesday.
It intends to follow the guidelines former President Barack Obama instituted to restrict the role of lobbyists in the administration.
“The ultimate arbiter for ethics for the Biden transition was a senior regulatory official for Facebook up until a few months ago, at a time when progressives and the Biden campaign are fighting against the right-wing agenda of Facebook,†Jeff Hauser, director of the liberal Revolving Door Project, told Politico.
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