X advertisers remain silent
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"It’s not out of the question," Elon Musk said back in 2022 when MrBeast asked if he could be the next X (then Twitter) CEO.
Musk tapped Yaccarino to replace him as CEO in 2023, shortly after purchasing the platform, then called Twitter, for $44 billion in October 2022. He said Yaccarino would focus primarily on Twitter's business while he focused on product design and new technology.
X is still the dominant social media platform, but its daily active user base has declined and competitor Threads is seeing higher rates of growth.
July 9 (Reuters) - Linda Yaccarino, one of Elon Musk's top deputies as CEO of his X social media site, is exiting the company in a surprise move just months after the platform was acquired by the billionaire's AI startup, xAI.
Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
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Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino's resignation came hours after her boss Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, targeted her in a graphic sexual screed for all to see.
One name absent from the list is Katie Miller, Musk’s right-hand woman at DOGE, who departed her work in government when Musk left on bad terms with Trump. Miller is the wife of Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to Trump who regularly appears on TV to spout the most vile, racist things about immigrants that you can imagine.
Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as X’s CEO — and leaving the platform once known as Twitter in a worse place than when she started. A day after X users circulated viral screenshots of the company’s Grok chatbot denigrating Jews and declaring itself “MechaHitler,