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David Plouffe will help Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropic efforts

Obama's 2008 presidential campaign manager is headed to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to lead public policy efforts. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, formed the organization in late 2015 to take on ambitious goals like curing human diseases and improving education.

That's not all: Ken Mehlman, who managed Bush's 2004 presidential campaign, will lead the organization's new public policy advisory board while continuing to work for KKR, a private equity firm.

What it means: Zuckerberg is gearing up to take on big political battles for his philanthropic quests. It's also hard to ignore that Plouffe's other job in Silicon Valley is to advise Uber, a company known for its aggressive tactics and occasionally loose interpretation of laws.