While reshaping the Web in its own social imagine, Facebook has also been busy positioning itself as a friend of Washington, reports The New York Times. Indeed, "Facebook has layered its executive,
legal, policy and communications ranks with high-powered politicos from both parties, beefing up its firepower for future battles in Washington and beyond," The Times reports.
There's
Sheryl Sandberg, the former Clinton administration official who is now Facebook's chief operating officer. Then there's Ted Ullyot, a general counsel former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia who is now general counsel for the social network. Most recently, reports surfaced that Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former White House press secretary, might be joining Facebook's
communications team.
Why does Facebook need so much political might? It's only "redefining the notion of privacy and transforming communications, media and advertising in the Internet
age," The Times writes.
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