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Meta’s Head of Messenger Stan Chudnovsky To Leave Company

By Sylvia Varnham O'Regan
· · Source: Bloomberg

The head of Meta Platforms’ messenger services, Stan Chudnovsky, plans to leave the company next year, according to Bloomberg. Chudnovsky, a former PayPay executive who joined Meta in 2015, has been working on integrating Meta’s messaging services across its apps. He also works on audio and video calling—known as “remote presence” products. He intends to stay at the company until the second...

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