Facebook has hired Joe Lockhart , a former spokesman for former U.S. President Bill Clinton to address its strategy and international corporate communications .
The company, based in Palo Alto (California) noted that Lockhart will serve as Vice President for Global Communications from next month.
His signing is the latest example of efforts by Facebook to hire a number of leading connoisseurs of how the world of politics in Washington.
Last month, the social network that was hired as deputy chief of staff to President George W Bush, Joel Kaplan .
Had also considered taking the services of former President Barack Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, although that possibility was never realized.
As stated by the vice president of marketing for Facebook, Elliot Schrage said in a statement, experience in the White House Lockhart, spokesman for Clinton between 1998 and 2000, "brings a special sensitivity to the demands of a news cycle of 24 hours and to the challenges of responding efficiently to intense scrutiny. "
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