Facebook Chief Marketing Officer Resigns "To Help Democratic Party Win Midterms"

Facebook's Chief Marketing Officer Gary Briggs is leaving the social media giant to retire... or not.

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In a Facebook post, Briggs explained...

Status update

I guess it’s fitting that this is a status update. After weighing the timing, and discussing it with Chris and Sheryl over the past year, I‘m excited to have made the decision to retire. And I know I’m fortunate; very fortunate.

I am so grateful for my 4 1/2 years as CMO at Facebook and will work now on hiring my successor. It’s an amazing job at an amazing time with the best marketing team. While I’m getting ready for my next chapter, I’m not done yet. I’ll be here at Facebook fully committed until we hire someone great and they ramp up.

Since our boys went off to college two years ago, Catherine and I have been talking about how to take advantage of our new flexibility. I took that time to weigh what it would be like to continue to work full-time versus not. Over the past year, I’ve also pursued more personal interests and decided that now is the right time.

I’m going to pursue some advisory work for a few companies and hopefully join a few boards. I’ll explore teaching a bit. We’re going to travel some and start to split our time in and out of the Bay Area and Seattle.

And I plan to help the Democratic Party on some efforts leading up to the US midterms this year through to 2020.

Thank you to Chris, Sheryl and Mark for inviting me into Facebook and the best role of my career. I’m excited for what’s next.

Although if politicians and Facebook officials are to be believed, winning the Midterms is simple... just buy $120,000 of Ads on Facebook?

Paving the way for 2020...

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Comments

???ö? Gaius Frakkin'… Jan 23, 2018 2:52 PM Permalink

Build the fucking wall. It's how you maintain the rule of law. Without a wall there is only permanent chaos. A wall serves a psychological purpose. It says "you're not allowed here". That's the same reason we have doors and windows with locks. It's not because doors and windows and walls cannot be broken.  It's because they send a message: You're not allowed here.

Zuckerberg built a wall. A wall around his garden. Democrats know, walls make good rules. Democrats say the only good walls are Democrat walls.  

Facebook Wall: Okay

Trump Wall: Not Okay

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Kafir Goyim StackShinyStuff Jan 23, 2018 3:06 PM Permalink

Couldn't he do more good staying where he is?

Nope.  Believe me, he'll be running the Facebook election machine, but he'll do it from behind the scenes for maximum deniability. 

Can't have the plebs questioning the ethics of a huge company that has the statistics on every man, woman, and child in America stupid enough to have a facebook account (most of them), using that power to control the future of the nation.  No, that wouldn't be kosher.   Gotta provide the appearance of propriety. 

He's "leaving" now to set things in motion for 2018 and then his bosses (Zuckey the Thief) run in 2020.

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HenryJ Jan 23, 2018 2:36 PM Permalink

I am going to remain at my Job and work and Pray that Socialist Immoral Reprobate's such as you never get close to Governing over the American People

null Jan 23, 2018 2:41 PM Permalink

Let’s hope he does not have access to petabytes of data already processed to determine everything DNC would want to know about their opposition.

But hey, terms of use, opposition should not have been in the hornets’ nest.

Trajan Jan 23, 2018 3:00 PM Permalink

I guess the timing is right, he has the new algorithms set up, a back door coded so he can get in and sift the data, so nows the time to go 'Independent' of the Company.......