Meta’s India head Ajit Mohan resigns after four years within the role, could maybe join Snap

Ajit Mohan, the India head of Facebook’s dad or mum Meta Platforms Inc, has resigned after four years within the role, the firm stated on Thursday (November 3), adding that it stays “deeply dedicated to India”. 

Within the meantime, a firm spokesperson told the news agency Reuters that Manish Chopra, the director and head of partnerships at Meta India, will remove over as length in-between head. 

Nicola Mendelsohn, who is the vp of the Global Industry Neighborhood at Meta, stated in an announcement: “Ajit Mohan has determined to step down from his role at Meta to pursue one other opportunity initiate air of firm.” 

“Over final 4 yrs, he has played imp role in shaping & scaling our India ops so that they’ll reduction millions of Indian companies, partners & of us,” added Mendelsohn. 

The firm is soundless “strongly dedicated to India,” in step with Nicola Mendelsohn, vp of Meta’s worldwide enterprise neighborhood, in an announcement. 

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A source with relate knowledge of the topic told Reuters that Mohan will join rival Snap Inc as a senior govt. He can be overseeing the Asia Pacific space. Nevertheless, there’s no affirmation yet on his subsequent role. 

In India, the authorities has been tightening rules controlling Colossal Tech corporations, Facebook is within the meantime going thru a resolution of regulatory problems. For years, the enterprise has near below fire for no longer doing extra to stop the unfold of spurious knowledge and hate speech in India. 

By comparability, the Meta-owned messaging provider WhatsApp has 563 million customers as of November 2021, whereas the platform had discontinuance to 450 million customers in India. 

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