Meta said Campbell Brown will become a consultant after seven years at the company, primarily managing news partnerships.Publishers have been frustrated with how Meta handles media, such as its deprioritizing the recommendation of news to users in favor of short-form video.said Campbell Brown, the company's top executive responsible for handling partnerships with news publishers, is leaving the company after seven years.
The company said on Tuesday that Brown, who was previously an anchor for NBC News and CNN, will become a consultant, stepping down from the position of vice president of media partnerships. Brown's team will be incorporated into another group encompassing media and sports partnerships development and operations, Meta said.Meta in 2017, when the company, then known as Facebook, was facing stout criticism for its handling of the spread of misinformation in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Brown was hired for her journalistic pedigree.
Part of Brown's role was to act as a liaison between the company and the many different news publishers who relied on the platform to distribute articles to readers. Meta has for years had a rocky relationship with news publishers, who werewith some of the company's various changes, such as deprioritizing the recommendation of news to users in favor of more entertainment and short-form video.
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