In this Thursday, March 26, 2015, record photo, Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer talks astir virtual world portion delivering a keynote code astatine the Facebook F8 Developers Conference, successful San Francisco. Facebook's CTO Schroepfer is stepping down from the societal media company, taking connected a portion clip relation portion longtime enforcement Andrew Bosworth volition regenerate him successful 2022. Schroepfer, known arsenic "Schrep," has been astatine Facebook for 13 years and is simply a adjacent person of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File
Facebook's Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is stepping down from the societal media company, taking connected a part-time relation portion longtime enforcement Andrew Bosworth volition regenerate him adjacent year.
Schroepfer, known arsenic "Schrep," has been astatine Facebook for 13 years and is simply a adjacent person of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He called his determination hard "because of however overmuch I emotion Facebook and however excited I americium astir the aboriginal we are gathering together" but added that his caller relation volition fto him absorption connected idiosyncratic and philanthropic efforts portion staying connected to Facebook.
The modulation volition hap sometime successful 2022.
Bosworth, known arsenic "Boz," is different longtime Facebook exec and a adjacent person of Zuckerberg's. He has astir precocious been successful complaint of Facebook's augmented world and virtual world efforts, arsenic good arsenic hardware products specified arsenic Oculus and Portal, Facebook's video calling gadget.
"As our adjacent CTO, Boz volition proceed starring Facebook Reality Labs and overseeing our enactment successful augmented reality, virtual reality and more, and arsenic portion of this modulation a fewer different groups volition articulation Boz's squad arsenic well," Zuckerberg wrote successful a memo to Facebook unit that was posted online. "This is each foundational to our broader efforts helping to physique the metaverse, and I'm excited astir the aboriginal of this enactment nether Boz's leadership."
Schroepfer's modulation comes amid relentless challenges for Facebook that person ranged from concerns astir extremism, vaccine and election-related misinformation spreading connected its platforms, regulatory unit connected competition, antitrust issues and idiosyncratic privateness among different issues.
Another longtime executive, Fidji Simo, near Facebook implicit the summertime to go CEO of Instacart.
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