{"id":19156,"date":"2020-06-12T06:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T06:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/chris-cox-returns-to-the-fold-as-facebooks-chief-product-officer.html"},"modified":"2020-06-12T06:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T06:33:19","slug":"chris-cox-returns-to-the-fold-as-facebooks-chief-product-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/chris-cox-returns-to-the-fold-as-facebooks-chief-product-officer.html","title":{"rendered":"Chris Cox returns to the fold as Facebook\u2019s chief product officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a very high-profile departure<\/a> and a year away from the company, Facebook\u2019s former chief product officer Chris Cox will return to his long-held position with the company.<\/p>\n

Cox shared the news Thursday in a Facebook post<\/a> with a photo of his company badge. Elaborating on his return to Facebook, <\/a> Cox explained that the unique national and global climate of 2020 influenced his decision, particularly the coronavirus pandemic, its subsequent economic devastation and the nation\u2019s current focus on \u201ca reckoning of racial injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike many of you, I\u2019ve been thinking hard about what I can do for our families and communities today, and for the world our children will live in tomorrow,\u201d Cox wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook and our products have never been more relevant to our future. It\u2019s the place I know best, it\u2019s a place I\u2019ve helped to build, and it\u2019s the best place for me to roll up my sleeves and dig in to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cox has played an important role in shaping Facebook for years, both in terms of the products he broadly oversaw and in terms of company culture. One of Facebook\u2019s earliest engineers, Cox came on board 15 years ago and in 2008 began working on Facebook\u2019s product team. He moved into the chief product officer role in 2014, staying close to Mark Zuckerberg throughout his tenure.<\/p>\n

Notably, Cox criticized Facebook\u2019s hands-off approach to political advertising<\/a> late last year, a decision the company made after his departure. Cox, who also expressed his displeasure with Trump at the time, suggested that fact-checking was necessary for political ads, though it needed to be nonpartisan in its execution. In his time away from Facebook, Cox worked as an advisor for Acronym, a nonprofit working on digital campaign tools for Democrats.<\/p>\n

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Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company\u2019s stance on Trump posts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Facebook\u2019s choice to not fact-check its political ads was one of a recent string of decisions that appeared designed to align the company more favorably with its conservative critics<\/a>. In <\/span>recent comments, Facebook\u2019s former chief technology officer observed that the company is \u201cafraid of angering Republicans\u201d in crafting platform policies like those governing political ads.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same day as Cox\u2019s return announcement, Facebook responded to criticism<\/a> from Joe Biden\u2019s campaign that the company placates President Trump by citing Trump\u2019s own executive order attacking moderation decisions by social media companies in defense.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump should not be our president\u201d says Ex-Facebook CPO Chris Cox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Cox\u2019s decision to leave last year was seen as a heavy blow for the company, which has been plagued by a stream of high-profile departures in recent years. Cox\u2019s return is good news for Facebook, which is currently in the midst of a rare period of open dissent<\/a> over a post from the president that threatened protesters after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, an unarmed Black man.<\/p>\n

Cox notes that in following the company over the last year in his absence he was \u201cencouraged by progress on so many of the big issues,\u201d though it\u2019s not immediately clear what issues he was referring to, particularly in light of the company\u2019s fresh internal controversy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past month the world has grown more chaotic and unstable, which has only given me more resolve to help out,\u201d Cox said. \u201cOur most important decisions and products are ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the 2020 U.S. election looming and Facebook\u2019s role in public and political discourse more central than ever, he\u2019s likely right about that.<\/p>\n

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Biden slams Facebook for letting Trump run wild and demands policy changes in open letter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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