Facebook’s Corporate Communications
Manager, Internal Audit Director, Operations and charge of Client Partner and
Global Marketing Solutions manager are former Pfizer employees.
According to their profiles at LinkedIn,
the three joined Facebook from Pfizer between 2018 and 2020.
The platform
that routinely censors posts critical of COVID-19 vaccines – has hired several
alumni from Pfizer’s marketing and internal audit teams to lead similar efforts
at the social media platform, according to The National Pulse.
The hires appear
to present a conflict of interest for the social media platform, which has come
under fire for
censoring and banning users who’ve posted about the side effects or questioned
the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
Facebook’s
Internal Audit Director, for example, was formerly a Senior Director at Pfizer.
The employee – Tiffany Stokes –
has held the influential position at Facebook since January 2020.
“Build and own
strong relationships with critical business partners, provide project oversight
of operational audits, manage internal audit plan and risk assessment,” she lists
as part of her job description on
her LinkedIn profile. “Leadership requires close collaboration with the Sales,
Partnerships, Global Operations, International, HR, and Legal teams to assess
and prioritize risks across an ever-changing high-tech business landscape,” she
adds.
Prior to joining
Facebook, Stokes worked at COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer for five years as
the Senior Director of its finance and legal operations.
“Established and
managed legal, budgeting, and forecasting processes to achieve the business’s
financial goals as well as cost control commitments made to shareholders and
the financial and investment community,” she summarized her position.
Prior to serving
in this role, which she also notes required her to “adjust financial forecasts
based on fluctuating costs, prioritization of legal matters, and impending
legal issues,” she worked as the pharmaceutical giant’s Assistant Treasurer for
the U.S. and Capital Markets, where she “directed” the company’s $8 billion
investment portfolio.
The National
Pulse can also reveal that
a Facebook Vice President for Global Clients and Categories was formerly
Pfizer’s Chief Marketing Officer for consumer healthcare in the U.S. The
employee, Brian Groves, worked at Pfizer for a total of 14 years before joining
Facebook as a Director of its Global Accounts.
Similarly,
a former Director
for Digital Marketing and Innovation at Pfizer joined Facebook as a Client
Partner for its Global Marketing Solutions branch in 2018.
In addition to
Facebook hiring Pfizer marketing team alumni, the
platform also added Pfizer’s former Senior Public Affairs and Corporate
Communications Project Manager as its own Corporate Communications Manager in
2019.
According to The National Pulse, the unearthed
personnel links between Pfizer and Facebook follow the social media platform
deploying its third-party “fact-checkers” – who have deep ties to Democratic
politics and the Chinese Communist Party –
to brand COVID-19 studies and articles at
odds with mainstream narrative as “disinformation.”
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