Facebook CTO to step down, hardware chief will replace him

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Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer announced on Wednesday that he will step down from his role next year and be replaced by Andrew Bosworth, the head of Facebook’s hardware division.

Schroepfer will transition to a part-time role with the social media giant, which is under immense scrutiny thanks to a series of reports by the Wall Street Journal last week that Facebook intentionally ignores or fails to address multiple significant issues plaguing users across its website.

“This is a difficult decision because of how much I love Facebook and how excited I am about the future we are building together,” Schroepfer wrote on his Facebook profile. He said the change in role would allow him more time for philanthropic endeavors and family.

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Bosworth’s promotion to CTO is a sign of Facebook’s heightened prioritization of physical hardware in the near future. Earlier this month, the California-based company announced a new smart glasses partnership with Ray-Ban, as well as a new set of Portal video-calling devices.

Bosworth will continue leading Facebook’s Reality Labs and overseeing its work in augmented reality, virtual reality, and other related areas, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post on Wednesday.

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When Schroepfer transitions out of his current CTO role sometime next year, he will become Facebook’s first senior fellow, focused on helping the tech giant recruit and develop technical talent and foster its artificial intelligence investments in technologies such as PyTorch.

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