In this slow-motion marriage plot, Joel Kaplan is their Friar Laurence ... and is a graduate of Stanford Law School. If you enjoyed this story, be sure to follow Business Insider on Microsoft ...

Taking his place: Joel Kaplan, a Meta lobbying exec with ties ... Prior to that, he worked as a law clerk for former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after graduating from Harvard Law School.

A former deputy chief of staff under President George W. Bush, Kaplan joined Facebook in 2011 to expand its D.C. lobbying efforts.

Joel Kaplan told a Brussels Meta event that the approach Brussels is taking to tech resembles “a tax or a tariff.” ...