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

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.