Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social media company’s oversight board and the former prime minister of Denmark, said ‘Meta systems have been too complex’, adding there had been ‘over-enforcement’.
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She told BBC Radio 4 that she did not think Nick Clegg left Meta, where he was president of global affairs, because of the change, adding she knew he would agree with her
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