Meta’s former policy director Nick Clegg appears to be doing something unusual when promoting his upcoming book, How to Save the Internet. Unlike some other Meta employee memoirs, "How to Save the Internet" sounds neither like a full exposé nor a scathing critique.
In an interview with the Guardian, Clegg, who once led Britain's Liberal Democrats, appeared to distance himself from Silicon Valley but did not completely sever ties with his former employer.
"I do believe that, despite its flaws, social media has allowed billions of people... to interact with each other in a way that they never have before," he said, adding, "If I felt that Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg were who they say they are, he wouldn't be working for Meta."
Still, he made some memorable remarks about Silicon Valley, describing it as a "boringly conformist" culture where "everyone wears the same clothes, drives the same cars, listens to the same podcasts, and follows the same fads."
Clegg seemed baffled by the film industry's growing obsession with masculinity, saying: "I can't understand this deeply indecent combination of machismo and self-pity."