X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepping down
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NATHAN HOWARD
Elon Musk-owned social platform X’s CEO Linda Yaccarino stated on Wednesday she would step down from the function in a shock transfer.
Her exit comes at a troublesome time for Musk, who’s coping with falling gross sales at his EV maker Tesla and is embroiled in a confrontation with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Yaccarino didn’t give a selected motive for her resolution. X and Yaccarino didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
She took the highest job in 2023 to assist Musk rework the corporate after he purchased it in a $44 billion deal.
Previous to turning into the CEO of X, Yaccarino spent a number of years modernizing the advert enterprise of Comcast’s NBCUniversal.
The social media platform is coping with a heavy debt load, and Yaccarino has needed to usually cope with controversies stirred up by Musk, together with his endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy theories in late 2023.
The corporate later sued quite a few advertisers and an promoting group, alleging they colluded to disclaim X advert {dollars}.
In March, Musk’s AI startup xAI acquired the social media platform in a $33 billion all-stock deal.
Its chatbot Grok eliminated what it referred to as “inappropriate” social media posts on Tuesday after complaints from X customers and the Anti-Defamation League that Grok produced content material with antisemitic tropes
Printed on July 9, 2025