Facebook has more than four registered lobbyists

"Lockhart will bring his rich work experience to the Facebook communication team," Elliot Schrage, vice president of global communications, marketing and public policy, said in a statement on the same day, Tes Schlach. The work experience of Lockhart, the head of the White House press office, will further strengthen Facebook's communication skills. ”

A Facebook spokeswoman said that Lockhart would be responsible for Facebook's business, policy and international communications, and that it would officially take office on July 15 this year, when he would travel from Washington to work at the Facebook headquarters in California. During Clinton's second term as U.S. president, Lockhart served as Clinton's press secretary. In 2001, Lockhart created a strategic communications company called "Glover Park Group".

In a report this March, the New York Times said Facebook had contacted Robert Gibbs, the former press secretary of Barack Obama, the US president, in the hope that the latter would be the head of external communications for Facebook. During the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Gibbs was one of the main members of the Obama campaign. After Obama's victory, Gibbs became the White House press secretary. Gibbs resigned from the White House this February.

Facebook also announced at the end of last month that it had hired two assistants to the former US President George W. Bush as corporate lobbyists, up to four registered lobbyists.