And yet Kaplan's most remarkable achievement is playing out right now: the extraordinary — once unthinkable — political romance between Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump. A decade ago ...

Mark Zuckerberg bent the knee to Donald Trump. Joel Kaplan made it happen. The fusillade of major announcements from Meta this month — including the termination of its fact-checking and DEI ...

“This is a very delicate political dance Joel has been helping Mark navigate,” said Katie Harbath, a former policy director who worked with Kaplan on Meta’s elections strategy for a decade.