Meta’s longtime content policy chief Bickert leaving to teach at Harvard

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Meta’s long-time content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the writing and ​enforcement of Facebook’s content policies and had ‌a role in the company’s approach to user safety issues, is leaving the company for a job at ​Harvard Law School.

Bickert will stay at ​Meta until August and work on a transition ⁠plan with Kevin Martin, who oversees Meta’s ​global policy team, she wrote in an internal ​post viewed by Reuters on Friday, which said she had long been interested in teaching.

As head of content ​policy, Bickert has regularly served as Meta’s public ​face amid controversies over its handling of political content and ‌teen ⁠mental health. A former federal prosecutor, she joined Facebook in 2012. The company later changed its name to Meta.

“Yes, we’re a business and ​we make ​profit, but ⁠the idea that we do so at the expense of people’s safety ​or well-being misunderstands where our own ​commercial ⁠interests lie,” she wrote in 2021 after the leak of documents by former Meta employee Frances ⁠Haugen.

In a ​statement, Meta Chief Global ​Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan praised Bickert’s work at the company.