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Joel Kaplan

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37 articles decelerating

Joel Kaplan has appeared in 37 articles since 2018-10. Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, Trump, Meta, Zuckerberg.

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37
mentions
Velocity
-80.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
-0.356
velocity change
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20
publications

Coverage Timeline

2021-11-03
TIME

Sources: Facebook has done little to act on the Islamophobic “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory on its platform in India due to “political sensitivities”

In a video posted to Facebook in November 2020, an extremist priest called for Hindus to rise up and begin killing Muslims in India. Tweets: @jason_kint , @damomusings , @verambergen , @skjain_05 , @k...

2021-10-26
Politico 3 related

Internal docs show staff misgivings about Facebook's lobbying and government relations operation led by Joel Kaplan, which regularly weighs in on speech issues

2020-11-14
BuzzFeed News 9 related

At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation

Mark Zuckerberg https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : Zuckerbe...

2020-10-17
Wall Street Journal 4 related

Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era

with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... @clar...

2020-07-24
BuzzFeed News 1 related

An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built

Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .....

2020-06-02
New York Times 22 related

In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand

Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Pro...

2020-05-27
Wall Street Journal 7 related

Sources and documents: Zuckerberg and others shelved damning research into Facebook's polarizing effect, weakening efforts to apply its conclusions to products

and refuses to stop Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1317: Facebook knew it was polarising, ban Trump's Twitter?, how Bill Gates became … Anmol Mehrotra / Neowin : Facebook reportedly knew ...

2020-02-21
Washington Post 1 related

Sources detail the rising clout of Joel Kaplan and other conservatives at Facebook during the Trump administration

Craig Timberg / Washington Post :

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TEXXR tracks 21 Techmeme articles mentioning Joel Kaplan, dating back to October 2018. The biggest stories include Meta required a public statesman like Nick Clegg after the Cambridge Analytica scandal,... and Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is.... Frequently covered alongside Facebook, Meta, Trump, Zuckerberg, and Kavanaugh.

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2025Q2safety -12pts; consumer +62pts
2025Q3enterprise +100pts; developer +100pts; consumer -100pts

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