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Meta\u2019s former policy chief Nick Clegg seems to be walking a tightrope as he promotes his upcoming book, \u201cHow to Save the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unlike certain other Meta employee memoirs, \u201cHow to Save the Internet\u201d doesn\u2019t sound like a tell-all or a scathing critique. And in an interview with the Guardian, Clegg (who previously led the U.K.\u2019s Liberal Democrats) seems to distance himself from Silicon Valley without quite disavowing his former employer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really do believe that, despite its imperfections, social media has allowed billions of people \u2026 to communicate with each other in a way that has never happened before,\u201d he said, adding that he wouldn\u2019t have worked for Meta \u201cif I felt Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg were the monsters other people say they are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, he delivered memorable sound bites about the Valley, describing it as a \u201ccloyingly conformist\u201d culture where \u201ceveryone wears the same clothes, drives the same cars, listens to the same podcasts, follows the same fads.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clegg also sounded be mystified by the industry\u2019s growing obsession with masculinity, saying, \u201cI couldn\u2019t, and still can\u2019t, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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