Meta’s head of stories relations, Campbell Brown, has stepped down

As Meta continues to take steps again from information promotion on its platforms, its head of stories partnerships, Campbell Brown, is leaving the corporate, studies Axios. She was employed in 2017 to assist information organizations get their content material in entrance of customers as the corporate pushed to make Fb a significant information aggregator.

Brown stated in a 2018 Code Convention interview that her job was “to not go recruit folks from information organizations to place their stuff on Fb,” later including that anybody who “feels this isn’t the correct platform for them … shouldn’t be on Fb.”

As governments turned a regulatory eye on what would finally change into Meta, the corporate did an about-face on its information efforts, with Brown telling workers it might as a substitute “heighten their deal with constructing a extra sturdy Creator financial system.” The corporate additionally responded to governments requiring it to pay information organizations for internet hosting their content material with broad bans on information sharing, most lately in Canada.